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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...
Love Enamored and Driven Mad
With Love Enamored and Driven Mad, Lucrezia Marinella puts her mark on classical mythology and literary...
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...
Antisatire
In Defense of Women, against Francesco Buoninsegni
Arcangela Tarabotti (1604–1652), Venetian nun and polemicist, was known for her protest against forced monachization and...
From Arcadia to Revolution
The Neapolitan Monitor and Other Writings
Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel was a poet, a political writer, a journalist, and a politician. She was...
Women's Household Drama
Loves Victorie, A Pastorall, and The concealed Fansyes
This volume presents three plays by women that were written in specific household contexts and survive...
Mirtilla, A Pastoral
A Bilingual Edition
Isabella Andreini was the most famous actress of the Italian Renaissance, the darling of dukes and...
Witness, Warning, and Prophecy
Quaker Women's Writing, 1655-1700
The forty texts collected in this volume offer a small but representative sample of Quaker women’s...
Midwife to the Queen of France
Diverse Observations
Diverse Observations is a groundbreaking book available for the first time in English. Written by a...
"Pamphilia to Amphilanthus" in Manuscript and Print
Wroth’s private manuscript, printed here for the first time, shows her to be a greater poet...
Selected Letters
Isabella d’Este (1474–1539), daughter of the Este dukes of Ferrara and wife of Marchese Francesco II Gonzaga...
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...
Autobiography and Letters of a Spanish Nun
When María Vela y Cueto (1561–1617) declared that God had personally ordered her to take only the...
Anna Trapnel’s Report and Plea; or, A Narrative of Her Journey from London into Cornwall
In 1654, Anna Trapnel — a Baptist, Fifth Monarchist, millenarian, and visionary from London — fell into...
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...
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...
Love Enamored and Driven Mad
With Love Enamored and Driven Mad, Lucrezia Marinella puts her mark on classical mythology and literary...
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...
Antisatire
In Defense of Women, against Francesco Buoninsegni
Arcangela Tarabotti (1604–1652), Venetian nun and polemicist, was known for her protest against forced monachization and...
From Arcadia to Revolution
The Neapolitan Monitor and Other Writings
Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel was a poet, a political writer, a journalist, and a politician. She was...
Women's Household Drama
Loves Victorie, A Pastorall, and The concealed Fansyes
This volume presents three plays by women that were written in specific household contexts and survive...
Mirtilla, A Pastoral
A Bilingual Edition
Isabella Andreini was the most famous actress of the Italian Renaissance, the darling of dukes and...
Witness, Warning, and Prophecy
Quaker Women's Writing, 1655-1700
The forty texts collected in this volume offer a small but representative sample of Quaker women’s...
Midwife to the Queen of France
Diverse Observations
Diverse Observations is a groundbreaking book available for the first time in English. Written by a...
"Pamphilia to Amphilanthus" in Manuscript and Print
Wroth’s private manuscript, printed here for the first time, shows her to be a greater poet...
Selected Letters
Isabella d’Este (1474–1539), daughter of the Este dukes of Ferrara and wife of Marchese Francesco II Gonzaga...
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...
Autobiography and Letters of a Spanish Nun
When María Vela y Cueto (1561–1617) declared that God had personally ordered her to take only the...
Anna Trapnel’s Report and Plea; or, A Narrative of Her Journey from London into Cornwall
In 1654, Anna Trapnel — a Baptist, Fifth Monarchist, millenarian, and visionary from London — fell into...
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...