The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series
The Other Voice series publishes editions of works by or about women (fourteenth to eighteenth centuries) addressing the contemporary debate over women’s moral and intellectual capacity, along with related literary texts, including autobiographies and letter collections, and philosophical, devotional, and medical works pertaining to gynecology, obstetrics, or midwifery. The goal of the series is to make historical texts available in English, but also to present and interpret them in a rigorous and state-of-the-art scholarly fashion, fully engaging with specialist secondary literature, so that the volumes are of interest to doctoral and post-doctoral researchers, while still being accessible to a more general readership.
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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...
The Wretch, Otherwise Known as Guerrino
A Bilingual Edition
The only English translation of the first epic poem to be authored by an Italian woman....
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...
In Defense of Women
A Bilingual Edition
An important contribution to early public debates on the nature of women written by a cardinal...
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 Faithful Virgins
The first-ever print edition of a play by one of the first women playwrights in England....
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 Spiritual Life and Other Writings
A new edition of all of de Varano's known works, several of which have never before...
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,...
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...
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...
Lovers’ Debates for the Stage
A Bilingual Edition
Witty and dynamic lovers’ dialogues for the stage. The actress and author Isabella Andreini won international...
Two Lives of Saint Colette
With a Selection of Letters by, to, and about Colette
Two accounts of the life of Saint Colette of Corbie. Saint Colette of Corbie (1381–1447) was...
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...
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...
The Wretch, Otherwise Known as Guerrino
A Bilingual Edition
The only English translation of the first epic poem to be authored by an Italian woman....
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...
In Defense of Women
A Bilingual Edition
An important contribution to early public debates on the nature of women written by a cardinal...
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 Faithful Virgins
The first-ever print edition of a play by one of the first women playwrights in England....
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 Spiritual Life and Other Writings
A new edition of all of de Varano's known works, several of which have never before...
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,...
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...
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...
Lovers’ Debates for the Stage
A Bilingual Edition
Witty and dynamic lovers’ dialogues for the stage. The actress and author Isabella Andreini won international...
Two Lives of Saint Colette
With a Selection of Letters by, to, and about Colette
Two accounts of the life of Saint Colette of Corbie. Saint Colette of Corbie (1381–1447) was...
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...
