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Shadow Puppets, Songs, and Sacred Feasts
Celebrations of the Indo-Portuguese Nuns in the Eighteenth-Century Real Convento de Santa Mónica, Goa, India. A Bilingual Edition
The two eighteenth-century texts translated here offer a rare glimpse into the creative lives of cloistered...
Dramatic Proverbs
Rehearsing for the Future
This translated edition of Madame de Maintenon’s school plays showcases their emphasis on the importance of...
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...
Poems by a Sixteenth-Century Gentlewoman, Maid, and Servant
A collection of poems by the first English woman to publish secular poetry under her own...
Writings of a Well-Learned Gentlewoman
The collected writings of Margaret More Roper, presented and annotated for classroom use. Margaret More Roper...
The Sprites of Kernosy Castle
A subversive novel from 1710 that questioned political and aesthetic ideologies in eighteenth-century France. This novel...
A Mother’s Spiritual Dialogue, Meditations, and Elegies
Key insights into women’s multi-dimensional roles as wives, widows, and mothers during the seventeenth century. Lady...
Letters
A collection of inventive writings in letter form from a sixteenth-century star of commedia dell'arte. Isabella...
The Spiritual Life and Other Writings
A new edition of all of de Varano's known works, several of which have never before...
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,...
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,...
Far from Home in Early Modern France
Three Women’s Stories
An engaging account of women’s travels in the early modern period. This book showcases three Frenchwomen...
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...
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...
The Book of the Body Politic
The first political treatise written by a woman. Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the Body Politic is the...
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...
Beauty and the Beast
The Original Story
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, the little-known author of Beauty and the Beast, was a successful novelist...
Convent Paradise
The radical Venetian writer Arcangela Tarabotti (1604–1652), compelled against her will to become a nun, is...
Shadow Puppets, Songs, and Sacred Feasts
Celebrations of the Indo-Portuguese Nuns in the Eighteenth-Century Real Convento de Santa Mónica, Goa, India. A Bilingual Edition
The two eighteenth-century texts translated here offer a rare glimpse into the creative lives of cloistered...
Dramatic Proverbs
Rehearsing for the Future
This translated edition of Madame de Maintenon’s school plays showcases their emphasis on the importance of...
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...
Poems by a Sixteenth-Century Gentlewoman, Maid, and Servant
A collection of poems by the first English woman to publish secular poetry under her own...
Writings of a Well-Learned Gentlewoman
The collected writings of Margaret More Roper, presented and annotated for classroom use. Margaret More Roper...
The Sprites of Kernosy Castle
A subversive novel from 1710 that questioned political and aesthetic ideologies in eighteenth-century France. This novel...
A Mother’s Spiritual Dialogue, Meditations, and Elegies
Key insights into women’s multi-dimensional roles as wives, widows, and mothers during the seventeenth century. Lady...
Letters
A collection of inventive writings in letter form from a sixteenth-century star of commedia dell'arte. Isabella...
The Spiritual Life and Other Writings
A new edition of all of de Varano's known works, several of which have never before...
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,...
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,...
Far from Home in Early Modern France
Three Women’s Stories
An engaging account of women’s travels in the early modern period. This book showcases three Frenchwomen...
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...
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...
The Book of the Body Politic
The first political treatise written by a woman. Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the Body Politic is the...
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...
Beauty and the Beast
The Original Story
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, the little-known author of Beauty and the Beast, was a successful novelist...
Convent Paradise
The radical Venetian writer Arcangela Tarabotti (1604–1652), compelled against her will to become a nun, is...