LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / French

Dramatic Proverbs

by Françoise d’Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon

Edited by Theresa Varney Kennedy

Introduction by Theresa Varney Kennedy

Translated by Paige Tierney

The Sprites of Kernosy Castle

by Henriette-Julie de Castelnau, Countess de Murat

Edited by Perry Gethner and Allison Stedman

Translated by Perry Gethner and Allison Stedman

Subject/Object and Beyond

Women in Early Modern France

Edited by Nancy M. Frelick and Edith Benkov

New Observations on the French Language, with Praises of Illustrious Learned Women

by Marguerite Buffet

Edited by Lynn S. Meskill

Translated by Lynn S. Meskill

The Art of Childbirth

A Seventeenth-Century Midwife’s Epistolary Treatise to Doctor Vallant: A Bilingual Edition

by Marie Baudoin

Edited by Cathy McClive

Translated by Cathy McClive

Lucrece and Brutus

Glory in the Land of Tender

by Madeleine De Scudéry

Edited by Sharon Diane Nell

Translated by Sharon Diane Nell

Letters from Spain

A Seventeenth-Century French Noblewoman at the Spanish Royal Court

by Marie Gigault de Bellefonds

Edited by Nathalie Hester

The Huguenot Experience of Persecution and Exile

Three Women’s Stories

by Charlotte Arbaleste Duplessis-Mornay, Anne de Chaufepié and Anne Marguerite Petit Du Noyer

Edited by Colette H. Winn

Translated by Lauren King and Colette H. Winn

Selected Philosophical, Scientific, and Autobiographical Writings

by Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Thiroux D’Arconville

Edited by Julie Candler Hayes

Translated by Julie Candler Hayes

The Ship of Virtuous Ladies

by Symphorien Champier

Edited by Todd W. Reeser

Translated by Todd W. Reeser

Othea’s Letter to Hector

by Christine de Pizan

Edited by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski and Earl Jeffrey Richards

Translated by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski and Earl Jeffrey Richards

Sin and Salvation in Early Modern France

Three Women’s Stories

by Marguerite D'Auge, Renée Burlamacchi and Jeanne Du Laurens

Edited by Colette H. Winn

Translated by Nicholas Van Handel and Colette H. Winn

The Book of the Mutability of Fortune

by Christine de Pizan

Edited by Geri L. Smith

Translated by Geri L. Smith

Memoirs of the Count of Comminge and The Misfortunes of Love

by Claudine-Alexandrine Guérin De Tencin

Edited by Jonathan Walsh

Translated by Jonathan Walsh

Letters from the Queen of Navarre with an Ample Declaration

by Jeanne D’Albret

Edited by Kathleen M. Llewellyn, Emily E. Thompson and Colette H. Winn

Translated by Kathleen M. Llewellyn, Emily E. Thompson and Colette H. Winn

Writings of Resistance

by Angélique De Saint-Jean Arnauld D’Andilly

Edited by John J. Conley, S.J.

Translated by John J. Conley, S.J.

Challenges to Traditional Authority

Plays by French Women Authors, 1650-1700

by Françoise Pascal, Mary-Catherine Desjardins, Antoinette Deshoulières and Catherine Durand

Edited by Perry Gethner

Translated by Perry Gethner

Portraits of the Queen Mother

Polemics, Panegyrics, Letters

by Catherine de Medicis

Translated by Leah L. Chang and Katherine Kong

Edited by Leah L. Chang and Katherine Kong

L’Honnête Femme

The Respectable Woman in Society and the New Collection of Letters and Responses by Contemporary Women

by Jacques Du Bosc

Edited by Sharon Diane Nell and Aurora Wolfgang

Translated by Sharon Diane Nell and Aurora Wolfgang