Why did Christine de Pizan become a professional writer?

a. As a widow, she needed to support her family.
b. Her prominent physician father advised her to write.
c. She believed that God, in a vision, told her to write Joan of Arc’s story.
d. Her husband arranged her first commission, a biography.

Answer: a

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