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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...
Letters
A collection of inventive writings in letter form from a sixteenth-century star of commedia dell'arte. Isabella...
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,...
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...
Letters on Natural Philosophy
The Scientific Correspondence of a Sixteenth-Century Pharmacist, with Related Texts
In her Letters on Natural Philosophy, published originally in Krakow in 1584, Camilla Erculiani proposed her...
My Life's Travels and Adventures
An Eighteenth-Century Oculist in the Ottoman Empire and the European Hinterland
In her never-finished My Life’s Travels and Adventures, the eighteenth-century Polish doctor Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa plays...
The Ship of Virtuous Ladies
First published in 1503 in Lyons, Symphorien Champier’s The Ship of Virtuous Ladies helped launch the...
The Wealth of Wives
A Fifteenth-Century Marriage Manual
In 1415, Francesco Barbaro produced a marriage manual intended at once for his friend, a scion of...
L’Honnête Femme
The Respectable Woman in Society and the New Collection of Letters and Responses by Contemporary Women
I heartily recommend this translation and edition of the two works by Jacques Du Bosc. The...
Three Spanish Querelle Texts
Grisel and Mirabella, The Slander against Women, and The Defense of Ladies against Slanderers
This bilingual edition of the Three Spanish Querelle Texts is very well-conceived and will attract a wide audience among specialists...
In Dialogue with the Other Voice in Sixteenth-century Italy
Literary and Social Contexts for Women's Writing
This excellent collection of essays and texts surveys the culture and intellectual context of early modern...
Leibniz and the Two Sophies
The Philosophical Correspondence
In his introduction, Lloyd Strickland proposes that Sophie, Electress of Hanover, and her daughter, Queen Sophie...
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...
Letters
A collection of inventive writings in letter form from a sixteenth-century star of commedia dell'arte. Isabella...
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,...
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...
Letters on Natural Philosophy
The Scientific Correspondence of a Sixteenth-Century Pharmacist, with Related Texts
In her Letters on Natural Philosophy, published originally in Krakow in 1584, Camilla Erculiani proposed her...
My Life's Travels and Adventures
An Eighteenth-Century Oculist in the Ottoman Empire and the European Hinterland
In her never-finished My Life’s Travels and Adventures, the eighteenth-century Polish doctor Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa plays...
The Ship of Virtuous Ladies
First published in 1503 in Lyons, Symphorien Champier’s The Ship of Virtuous Ladies helped launch the...
The Wealth of Wives
A Fifteenth-Century Marriage Manual
In 1415, Francesco Barbaro produced a marriage manual intended at once for his friend, a scion of...
L’Honnête Femme
The Respectable Woman in Society and the New Collection of Letters and Responses by Contemporary Women
I heartily recommend this translation and edition of the two works by Jacques Du Bosc. The...
Three Spanish Querelle Texts
Grisel and Mirabella, The Slander against Women, and The Defense of Ladies against Slanderers
This bilingual edition of the Three Spanish Querelle Texts is very well-conceived and will attract a wide audience among specialists...
In Dialogue with the Other Voice in Sixteenth-century Italy
Literary and Social Contexts for Women's Writing
This excellent collection of essays and texts surveys the culture and intellectual context of early modern...
Leibniz and the Two Sophies
The Philosophical Correspondence
In his introduction, Lloyd Strickland proposes that Sophie, Electress of Hanover, and her daughter, Queen Sophie...