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The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes
Brian Anslay's Translation of 1521 in Modernized English
An early Tudor translation of the Cité des dames, a crucial argument written by Christine de...
The Prophetess and the Patriarch
The Visions of an Anti-Regicide in Seventeenth-Century England
Published for the first time in full, a common woman’s writings reveal the startling role she...
Writings of a Well-Learned Gentlewoman
The collected writings of Margaret More Roper, presented and annotated for classroom use. Margaret More Roper...
In Defense of Women
A Bilingual Edition
An important contribution to early public debates on the nature of women written by a cardinal...
Subject/Object and Beyond
Women in Early Modern France
A collection of essays on early modern women from a collection of leading figures in the...
Letters
A collection of inventive writings in letter form from a sixteenth-century star of commedia dell'arte. Isabella...
The Faithful Virgins
The first-ever print edition of a play by one of the first women playwrights in England....
New Observations on the French Language, with Praises of Illustrious Learned Women
Two volumes by a seventeenth-century French gentlewoman and teacher, published in English for the first time....
The Carleton Bigamy Trial
Multiple conflicting perspectives come together in this collection to provide a Rashomon-style account of marriage, fraud,...
The Letters of the First Duchess of Ormonde
This volume is the first to bring together the entire extant correspondence of one of the...
News from the Midell Regions and Calthorpe’s Chapel
An introduction to a new early modern woman writer that makes her manuscripts available in print...
The Art of Childbirth
A Seventeenth-Century Midwife’s Epistolary Treatise to Doctor Vallant: A Bilingual Edition
The extraordinary story of a seventeenth-century French midwife and her treatise on childbirth. In 1671,...
Elizabethan Poetry in Manuscript
An Edition of British Library Harley MS 7392(2)
This volume presents the first printed edition of a late sixteenth-century poetic miscellany and provides invaluable...
A True Account of My Life and Selected Meditations
The autobiographical narrative of Anne, Lady Halkett. Born in the early 1620s, Anne, Lady Halkett (née...
New Technologies and Renaissance Studies III
These essays explore problems with digital approaches to analog objects and offer digital methods to study...
Travels into Spain
A masterpiece of ethnographic observation on seventeenth-century Spain. While mysteries remain in her biography, Madame...
Selected Letters, 1514-1543
The voluminous correspondence of Maria Salviati de’ Medici. In recent years, there has been an...
A Mother’s Manual for the Women of Ferrara
A Fifteenth-Century Guide to Pregnancy and Pediatrics
The first treatise of its kind to be written in a European vernacular. Around 1460, Michele...
Orphan Girl
The Olesnicki Episode: One Body with Two Souls Entwined: An Epic Tale of Married Love in Seventeenth-Century Poland
A page-turner featuring one of literature’s earliest female protagonists. Written in 1685, Transaction or the Description of...
Two Lives of Saint Colette
With a Selection of Letters by, to, and about Colette
Two accounts of the life of Saint Colette of Corbie. Saint Colette of Corbie (1381–1447) was...
The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes
Brian Anslay's Translation of 1521 in Modernized English
An early Tudor translation of the Cité des dames, a crucial argument written by Christine de...
The Prophetess and the Patriarch
The Visions of an Anti-Regicide in Seventeenth-Century England
Published for the first time in full, a common woman’s writings reveal the startling role she...
Writings of a Well-Learned Gentlewoman
The collected writings of Margaret More Roper, presented and annotated for classroom use. Margaret More Roper...
In Defense of Women
A Bilingual Edition
An important contribution to early public debates on the nature of women written by a cardinal...
Subject/Object and Beyond
Women in Early Modern France
A collection of essays on early modern women from a collection of leading figures in the...
Letters
A collection of inventive writings in letter form from a sixteenth-century star of commedia dell'arte. Isabella...
The Faithful Virgins
The first-ever print edition of a play by one of the first women playwrights in England....
New Observations on the French Language, with Praises of Illustrious Learned Women
Two volumes by a seventeenth-century French gentlewoman and teacher, published in English for the first time....
The Carleton Bigamy Trial
Multiple conflicting perspectives come together in this collection to provide a Rashomon-style account of marriage, fraud,...
The Letters of the First Duchess of Ormonde
This volume is the first to bring together the entire extant correspondence of one of the...
News from the Midell Regions and Calthorpe’s Chapel
An introduction to a new early modern woman writer that makes her manuscripts available in print...
The Art of Childbirth
A Seventeenth-Century Midwife’s Epistolary Treatise to Doctor Vallant: A Bilingual Edition
The extraordinary story of a seventeenth-century French midwife and her treatise on childbirth. In 1671,...
Elizabethan Poetry in Manuscript
An Edition of British Library Harley MS 7392(2)
This volume presents the first printed edition of a late sixteenth-century poetic miscellany and provides invaluable...
A True Account of My Life and Selected Meditations
The autobiographical narrative of Anne, Lady Halkett. Born in the early 1620s, Anne, Lady Halkett (née...
New Technologies and Renaissance Studies III
These essays explore problems with digital approaches to analog objects and offer digital methods to study...
Travels into Spain
A masterpiece of ethnographic observation on seventeenth-century Spain. While mysteries remain in her biography, Madame...
Selected Letters, 1514-1543
The voluminous correspondence of Maria Salviati de’ Medici. In recent years, there has been an...
A Mother’s Manual for the Women of Ferrara
A Fifteenth-Century Guide to Pregnancy and Pediatrics
The first treatise of its kind to be written in a European vernacular. Around 1460, Michele...
Orphan Girl
The Olesnicki Episode: One Body with Two Souls Entwined: An Epic Tale of Married Love in Seventeenth-Century Poland
A page-turner featuring one of literature’s earliest female protagonists. Written in 1685, Transaction or the Description of...
Two Lives of Saint Colette
With a Selection of Letters by, to, and about Colette
Two accounts of the life of Saint Colette of Corbie. Saint Colette of Corbie (1381–1447) was...