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Dramatic Proverbs
Rehearsing for the Future
This translated edition of Madame de Maintenon’s school plays showcases their emphasis on the importance of...
The Sprites of Kernosy Castle
A subversive novel from 1710 that questioned political and aesthetic ideologies in eighteenth-century France. This novel...
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...
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 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,...
Lucrece and Brutus
Glory in the Land of Tender
A collection of texts by a pioneering seventeenth-century French woman author. Comprising texts by Madeleine...
Letters from Spain
A Seventeenth-Century French Noblewoman at the Spanish Royal Court
Marie Gigault de Bellefonds, Marquise de Villars was a well-regarded figure in Parisian salons and esteemed...
The Huguenot Experience of Persecution and Exile
Three Women’s Stories
This volume provides an English translation of firsthand testimonies by three early modern French women. It...
Selected Philosophical, Scientific, and Autobiographical Writings
Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Thiroux d’Arconville combined fierce intellectual ambition with the proper demeanor of the wife of a...
The Ship of Virtuous Ladies
First published in 1503 in Lyons, Symphorien Champier’s The Ship of Virtuous Ladies helped launch the...
Othea’s Letter to Hector
Othea’s Letter to Hector, one of Christine de Pizan’s most popular works, is at the same...
Sin and Salvation in Early Modern France
Three Women’s Stories
The texts available here in English for the first time open a window into the lives...
The Book of the Mutability of Fortune
Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364–ca. 1431) has long been recognized as France’s first professional woman of letters,...
Memoirs of the Count of Comminge and The Misfortunes of Love
These translations from the French bring two of Claudine-Alexandrine de Tencin’s novels back to life: The...
Letters from the Queen of Navarre with an Ample Declaration
This edition presents in English, for the first time, Jeanne d’Albret’s Letters to the king, his mother,...
Writings of Resistance
An erudite abbess of Port-Royal, Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d’Andilly (1624 – 1684) resisted the demands of...
Challenges to Traditional Authority
Plays by French Women Authors, 1650-1700
The second half of the seventeenth century marked the first major breakthrough for women playwrights in...
Portraits of the Queen Mother
Polemics, Panegyrics, Letters
Catherine de Médicis was portrayed in her day as foreign usurper, loving queen and queen mother,...
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...
Dramatic Proverbs
Rehearsing for the Future
This translated edition of Madame de Maintenon’s school plays showcases their emphasis on the importance of...
The Sprites of Kernosy Castle
A subversive novel from 1710 that questioned political and aesthetic ideologies in eighteenth-century France. This novel...
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...
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 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,...
Lucrece and Brutus
Glory in the Land of Tender
A collection of texts by a pioneering seventeenth-century French woman author. Comprising texts by Madeleine...
Letters from Spain
A Seventeenth-Century French Noblewoman at the Spanish Royal Court
Marie Gigault de Bellefonds, Marquise de Villars was a well-regarded figure in Parisian salons and esteemed...
The Huguenot Experience of Persecution and Exile
Three Women’s Stories
This volume provides an English translation of firsthand testimonies by three early modern French women. It...
Selected Philosophical, Scientific, and Autobiographical Writings
Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Thiroux d’Arconville combined fierce intellectual ambition with the proper demeanor of the wife of a...
The Ship of Virtuous Ladies
First published in 1503 in Lyons, Symphorien Champier’s The Ship of Virtuous Ladies helped launch the...
Othea’s Letter to Hector
Othea’s Letter to Hector, one of Christine de Pizan’s most popular works, is at the same...
Sin and Salvation in Early Modern France
Three Women’s Stories
The texts available here in English for the first time open a window into the lives...
The Book of the Mutability of Fortune
Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364–ca. 1431) has long been recognized as France’s first professional woman of letters,...
Memoirs of the Count of Comminge and The Misfortunes of Love
These translations from the French bring two of Claudine-Alexandrine de Tencin’s novels back to life: The...
Letters from the Queen of Navarre with an Ample Declaration
This edition presents in English, for the first time, Jeanne d’Albret’s Letters to the king, his mother,...
Writings of Resistance
An erudite abbess of Port-Royal, Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d’Andilly (1624 – 1684) resisted the demands of...
Challenges to Traditional Authority
Plays by French Women Authors, 1650-1700
The second half of the seventeenth century marked the first major breakthrough for women playwrights in...
Portraits of the Queen Mother
Polemics, Panegyrics, Letters
Catherine de Médicis was portrayed in her day as foreign usurper, loving queen and queen mother,...
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...