Most of the books listed below follow the same format: A short (1-10 pages) biography/ literary criticism of each woman is followed by a short (5-10 pages) exerpt of her listed work(s). Each entry includes a bibliography of primary works by the writer and secondary works about the writer and her work.
The books are listed in the approximate order of the original date of the writings of the women whose writings are included in the work.
* indicates that works by this author are in print (in English) in a more complete form in other locations - see the bibliographies for details. (If it isn't marked, it does not mean it is not in print: it just means that I do not know about it. Some of the authors I have not yet tried to track down. Some of the authors I haven't succeeded in tracking down yet.)
I have not included details of the anthology
if it contains works by primarily 20th authors
if the list of included works is very long
if I haven't managed to get ahold of the book yet
List of Anthologies:
Blamires, Alcuin, 1992, Woman Defamed and Woman Defended, an Anthology of Medieval Texts, Oxford University Press (about 2/3 is woman defamed, about 1/3 is woman defended)
MacHaffie, Barbara J., 1992, Readings in Her Story: Women in Christian Tradition , Fortress Press, Minneapolis (74 excerpts, most originally written before the 20th century, many written in the first few centuries CE, many written by men about women but some written by women)
Wilson, Katharina M., 1984, Medieval Women Writers , University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
Thiebaux, Marcelle (translator and editor), 1987, The Writings of Medieval Women , Garland, New York
Distaves and Dames , Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints 1978 (complete copies of all texts)
Feminist Controversy of the Renaissance
, Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints 1978 (complete copies of all texts)
Wilson, Katherina M., 1987, Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation , University of Georgia Press
Klein, Joan Larsen, 1992, Writings by Men about Women and Marriage in England, 1500-1640 , University of Illinois Press
Wilson, Katharina M. and Frank J. Warnke, 1989, Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century , University of Georgia Press
Hannay, Margaret Patterson (ed.), 1985, Silent But for the Word: Tudor Women as Patrons, Translators and Writers of Religious Works , Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio (essays on a variety of Tudor women writers)
Henderson, Katherine Usher and Barbara F. McManus, 1985, Half-Humankind: Contexts and Texts of the Controversy About Women in England 1540 - 1640 , University of Illinois Press, Urbana
Ferguson, Moria (ed.), 1985, First Feminists: British Women Writers 1578-1799 , Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana
Folger Collective on Early Women Critics, (ed.), 1995, Women Critics: 1660-1820, An Anthology , Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana
Mahl, Mary and Helene Koon (eds.), 1977, The Female Spectator: English Women Writers Before 1800 , Indiana University Press, Bloomington
Blackwell, Jeannine and Susanne Zantop (eds.), 1990, Bitter Healing: German Women Writers, 1700 - 1830, An Anthology , Cornelia Niekus Moore (trans.), University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln
Ruether, Rosemary Radford and Rosemary Skinner Keller, 1995, In Our Own Voices: Four Centuries of American Women's Religious Writings , Harper SanFrancisco (approx. 100 documents - speeches, letters, extracts of books and pamphlets)
Ceplair, Larry (ed.), The Public Years of Sarah and Angelina Grimke, Selected Writings 1836-1839, Columbia University Press, 1989
Waelti-Walters, Jennifer and Steven C, Hause, (ed.), Jette Kjaer, Lydia Willis, and Jennifer Waelti-Walters (trans.) Feminisms of the Belle Eopque A Historical and Literary Anthology , University of Nebraska Press, 1994
Rossi, Alice S. 1973, The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir , Columbia University Press, reprinted 1988 Northeastern University Press, Boston
Busby, Margaret (ed.), 1992, Daughters of Africa, An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present , Ballantine Books, New York (long table of contents, primarily 19th and 20th century writers)
Kelly, Catriona (ed.), 1994, An Anthology of Russian Women's Writing, 1777-1992 , Oxford University Press, Oxford (primarily 20th century writers)
Blamires, Alcuin, 1992, Woman Defamed and Woman Defended, an Anthology of Medieval Texts, Oxford University Press (about 2/3 is woman defamed, about 1/3 is woman defended. Only tests where women are defended will be listed here.)
- Anon
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The Thrush and the Nightengale
- Marbod of Rennes
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The Good Woman
- Abelard
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From Letter 6, 'On the Origin of Nuns'
- Albertano of Brescia
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From The Book of Consolation and Advice
- Anon
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The Response to Richard Fournival's Bestiary of Love
- Anon
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The Southern Passion
- John Glower
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From A Lover's Confession
- The Trial of Walter Brut
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'Whether women are permitted to instruct men'
'Whether women are suitable to consecrate the sacrament'
From The Rigester of Bishop Trefnant
- Anon.
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From Dives and Pauper
- Anon
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Merelaus the Emperor
- Chirstine de Pizan
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From The Letter to the God of Love (excellent!)
From The Quarrel of the Rose
From The City of Ladies
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Wilson, Katharina M., 1984, Medieval Women Writers, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
Dhuoda (fl 841)
* Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (also known as Rotswit of Gandersheim) (fl 975)
from Basilius
from Dulcitius
Marie de France - late 12th and early 13th century
* Heloise (1100/01 - 1163/64)
* Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
from Hildegard's Letter to Guibert of Gembloux
from Scivias
from Liber divinorum operum
from the Ordo virtutum
Castelloza fl 1212?
Mechthilda of Magdeburg (1207/12 -1282)
from The Flowing Light of the Godhead
* Hadewijch first quarter of thirteenth century
from Letters
from Stanzaic Poems
* Margaret Porete (?-1310)
from Mirror of Simple Souls
* Saint Bridget (1303 - after 1354 )
from Revelations
from Extravagantes
* Saint Catherine of Siena (1347? - 1380)
To Urban VI
To Three Itilian Cardinals
To Giovanna of Anjou, to the Queen of Naples
* Julian of Norwich (1343-after 1416)
* Margery Kempe (1373- after 1438)
from The Book of Margery Kempe
Florencia Pinar
Song by a Lady Named Florencia Pinar
Another Song by the Same Lady, to Some Partridges That Were Sent to Her Live
Song by Florencia Pinar
* Christine de Pizan (1365? - after 1429)
from The Debate Over The Romance of the Rose
from The City of Ladies
from The Book of Three Virtues
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Thiebaux, Marcelle, 1994, The Writings of Medieval Women: an Anthology, Garland Press
Perpetua of Carthage
Egeria of Spain
Eudocia of Constantinople
Amalasuitha of Italy
Ragefrund of Poiters, Caesaria of Arles, and Baudonivia of Poitiers
An Anonymous Letter-Writer of the Sixth Century and Eucheria of Marseilles
The Wife's Lament, Wulf and Eadwacer, and Leoba of England and Germany
Dhouda of Uzes
Hrotswitha of Gandersheim
Anna Comnena
Trobairitz
Marie de France
Matilda, Queen of the English People
Hildegard of Bingen
Elisabeth of Schonau
Mechtild of Magdeburg and Beatrijis of Nazareth
Christine de Pizan
Julian of Norwich
Margarey Kempe, Julians Barnes, Queen Margaret of anjou, and Margarey Brews Paston
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Distaves and Dames , Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints 1978
The Gospelles of Dystaves (n.d.)
The Northern Mother's Blessings (1597)
The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes (1521), de Pizan
The Instruction of a Christian Woman (1529), Vives
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Feminist Controversy of the Renaissance
, Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints 1978
Guillaume Alexis, An Argument betwyxt Man and Woman (1525)
Sir Thomas Elyot, The Defense of Good Woman (1545)
Henricus Cornelius Agrippa, Female Pre-eminence (1670)
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Wilson, Katerina M., 1987, Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation , University of Georgia Press
Gaspara Stampa (Italy fl.1553)
The First Day of Her Love
His Excellent Qualities Have Been Her Sweet Chains
Love, Having Elevated Her to Him, Inspires Her Verses
She Will Be One Day Free; He, Too Late, Repentant
Holy Angels, I Don't Envy You
She Does Not Fear Amorous Pain, But Rather Its End
When Cupid with His Rays
By Now This Waiting So Has Wearied Me
With You My Heart Would Rove
He Conquers All Others in Valor; She Conquers Him in Faith and Sorrow
O Great Exploit of Gentle Cavalier
The Pains of Love Are Blessed, Now That He Has Returned
Night of Love
Send Back My Heart to Me, Relentless One
Elegiac Lament, her Love Being Far Away
On Every Christmas Her First Love Returns to Her Mind
She Hopes for Divine Aid
Sweetest Lord, O Do Not Let Me Die
Vitorria Colona (Italy 1492 - c. 1545)
Epistle to Ferrante Francesco d"Avalos, Her Husband, After the Battle of Ravenna
Love Poems
Sacred Poems
The Triumph of Christ's Cross
Veronica Gambara (Italy,1485-1550)
Madrigals, Sonnets, and a Ballad
* Saint Catherine of Genoa (Italy, 1447-1510)
from Biography
from Treatise on Purgatory
Saint Catherine of Bologna (Italy, fl 1456)
from The Seven Weapons of the Spirit
* Marguerite of Navare (France, fl 1550)
Loise Labe (France, 1515/24 -1566)
From the Works of Loise Labe of Lyon
Dianne de Poiters (France, 1500 - 1566)
Helisenne de Crenne (France, fl. 1540)
from The Sorrowful Anguished Which Proceed from Love
from The Invective Letters of My Lady Helisenne de Crenne
Pernette Du Guillet (France, 1520-1545)
from Les Rymes (The Poems)
Les Dames des Roches (France, fl 1585) - a mother and daughter team
from the Works of Mesdames des Roches of Poitiers
from New Works by Mesdames des Roches of Poitiers
from the Works of M. des Roches the Daughter
Marie Dentiere (France, fl. 1535)
from The Fight for and Deliverance of the City of Geneva, Faithfully Told and Written Down by a Merchant Living in That City from A Most Beneficial Letter, Prepared and Written Down by a ChristianWoman of Tournai, and Sent to the Queen of Navarre, Sister of the King of France, Against the Turks, the Jews, the Infidels, the False Christians, the Anabaptists, and the Lutherans
Caritas Pirckheimer (Bavaria, 1467-1532)
Caritas Pirckheimer to Conrad Celtis, Letter 47
from the Denkwurdigkeiten
Anna Owena Hoyers (Oldensworth, North Germany, 1584-1655)
To the Christian Reader
German Truth
from Anna Owena Hoyer's Advice, Which She Has Given to All Old Widows to Live Thereafter
from Anna Owena Hoyer's Brief Reflections of the Marriage of Old Women, Since God Has Nothing to Do with It
Helene Kottanner (Austria, 1400 - after 1452)
from Helene Kottanner's Memoirs
Margaret of Austria ( 1480 - 1530 )
Chanson
Letter To Margaret's Father, Maximilian of Austria
Letter To Loise of Savoy
Letter To Margaret's Nephew, Emperor Charles V
Anna Bijns (Antwerp, before 1516 -1575)
'Tis a Waste to Cast Pearls Before Swine
Make Merry and Leap the Scythe
Unyoked Is Best! Happy the Woman Without a Man
Yet, When Compared, Martin Rossom Comes Out Best
These Covet Happy Nights and Lose Their Happy Days
The Will I've Got, but No Force to See it Through
He Must Be Beautiful Who Created All This
Lord, If It All Deserts Me, Will You Stand by Me?
Saint Teresa of Jesus (Spain, 1515 - 1582)
from The Book of Life
from The Dwelling Places of the Interior Castle
Lea Raskai (Hungry, fl 1510)
from The Legend of the Blessed Margaret
Margaret More Roper (England, 1505 - 1544), daughter of Sir Thomas More
from A Devour Treatise upon the "Pater Noster"
Letter To Sir Thomas More
Letter "As Written to the Lady Alington"
Letter To Sir Thomas More
Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke (England, 1561 - 1621)
from The Tragedy of Antony by Robert Garnier Translated by Mary Herbert,
Countess of Pembroke
* Elizabeth I, Queen of England ( 1533 - 1603 )
from Woodstock: The Window Poem
from Woodstock: The Shutter Poem
French Psalter Poem
Doubt of Future Foes
On Fortune
On Monsieur's Departure
Cornation Prayer and Speech
Marriage Speech
Speech on Mary, Queen of Scots
Tilbury Speech
The Golden Speech
* Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth (England, 1586/ 87 - 1651/ 53 )
from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
Katherine Phillips, The Matchless Orinda (England,1631/32 - 1664)
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Klein, Joan Larsen, 1992, Writings by men about Women and Marriage in England, 1500-1640, University of Illinois Press
The Form and Solemnization of Matrimony (1559)
An Homily of the State of Matrimony (1563)
Selections from The Law's Resolutions of Women's Rights (1632)
Erasmus,
In Laud and Praise of Matrimony (1636?)
Defense of His Declamation in Priase of Marriage (1519)
Vives, Juan Luis,
from The Instruction of A Christian Woman (1529?)
from The Office and Duty of an Husband (1555?)
Philip Stubbes
from A Crystal Glass for Christian Women (1591)
Perkins, William
from Christian Economy: or, A Short Survey of the Right Manner of Erecting and Ordering a Family According to the Scriptures (1609)
Roeslin, Eucharius
from The Birth of Mankind, otherwise named The Woman's Book (1545)
Tusser, Thomas
The Points of Housewifery (1580)
Brathwaite, Richard
from The English Gentlewoman (1631)
Du Bosc, Jacques
from The Complete Woman (1639)
Leigh, Dorothy
from The Mother's Blessing (1616)
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Wilson, Katharina M. and Frank J. Warnke, 1989, Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century , University of Georgia Press
Marie de Gournay (France, 1565-1645)
from The Equality of Men and Women
from The Ladies' Grievance
* Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Madame de Sevigne (France, 1626 - 1696)
* Madame de LaFayette (France, 1634 - 1693)
Princess of Cleves
from The History of Madame Henriette d'Angleterre
from La Comtesse de Tende
Marie-Catherine le Jumel de Barneville, Madame d'Aulnoy (France, 1650/51 - 1705)
The Bee and the Orange Tree - a (cute) feminist fable
Camilla Faa Gonzaga (Italy, 1599 - 1662 )
from The Story of Donna Camilla Faa of Bruno Gonzaga
Maria Tesselschade (The Netherlands, 1594 - )
from various Letters, Poems, Songs, and Essays
Anna Maria van Schurman (The Netherlands, 1607-1678)
from a letter To Johan Beverwyck
from a letter To the Princess of Bohemia
from a letter To Dorothy Moor
from a letter To the Princess of Bohemia
from a letter To Simonds d'Ewes
from a letter To Marie de Gournay
from Whether the Study of Letters Is Fitting for a Christian Woman?
from Eukleria, or the Choice of the Better Part
from Letter to J. J. Schutz
Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor (Spain, 1590- 1661/69)
from Too Late for Disillusionment
Ana Caro Mallen de Soto (Spain, c. 1600 - c. 1650)
from El Conde de Partinuples
Mariana de Carvajal (Spain, married 1635, died c. 1665)
from Novella 5: Virtue Is Its Own Reward
from Novella 6: Love Conquers All
* Bathsua Makin (Enlgand, before 1610 - after 1682)
from An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen
* Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (England, 1623 - 1673)
from Poems and Fancies
Epistle to Nature's Pictures
from Bell in Campo
from The Description of a New World, called the Blazing-World
Three Letters of Margaret Lucas to William Cavendish
* Aphra Behn (England, 1640 - 1689)
Poems, Songs, Letters
from "Epistle to the Reader" in The Dutch Lover (1673)
from Act 5 of The Rover (1677)
from Act 4 of The Feign'd Curtizans 1679)
from The Amours of Philander and Sylvia (Part 3 of Love-Letters between a Noble-Man and His Sister, 1687)
Leonora Christina (Denmark, 1621 - 1698 )
from Memory of Sorrow; or A Recollection of What Happened to Me, Leonora Christian, in the Blue Tower, from August 8, 1663, to May 19, 1685
Queen Christian of Sweden (Sweden, 1626 - 1689)
from The Life of Queen Christina, Written by Herself, Dedicated to God
Sibylle Schwartz (Pomeria, northern Germany, 1621-1638)
various Sonnets
On the Blessed Passing of Herr J. Jaeger's Housekeeper
A Daughter Gives Suck to Her Mother
Some Epigrams
A Song Against Envy
The Happiness We Had at Fretow
Susanna
Catharina von Greiffenberg (Hapsburg Empire, 1634 - 1694)
from Twelve Devotional Contemplations on the Most Holy and Most Wholesome Suffering and Death of Jesus Christ, Mediation 6
from Sacred Sonnets, Songs, and Poems
from A Practice in Virtue by Seven Shepardessses Choosing Pleasure
Ludamilla Elisabeth, Countess of Schwartzbur-Rudolstadt (Germany, 1640 - 1672)
from The Voice of a Friend
Kata Szidonia Petroczi (Hungry, 1662 - 1708)
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Ferguson, Moria (ed.), 1985, First Feminists: British Women Writers 1578-1799 , Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana
Margaret Tyler (fl. 1578)
Translation by Tyler of The First Part of the Mirrour of Princely Deeds and Knyghthood: Dedication and Epistle to the Reader (1578)
Jane Anger (fl 1589)
Her Protection for Women, 1589
Ester Sowernam (fl 1617)
from Ester Hath Hang'd Haman, 1617
Joane Sharp (fl 1617)
"A Defense of Women", poem concluding Ester Sowernam's Ester Hath Hang'd Haman, 1617
* Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673
from Philosophical and Physical Opinions: Preface "To the Two Most Famous Universities of England" (1655)
from The Convent of Pleasure, 1668
Katherine Fowler Philips (1631-1664)
from Poems by the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Phillips, the Matchless Orinda, 1667
Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1614-1792)
from Women's Speaking Justified , 1667
* Bathsua Reginald Makin, (1608? - 1673?)
from An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen, 1673
* Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
from The Dutch Lover, 1673
from Sir Patient Fancy, Epilogue, 1678
from Lycidus: or, The Lover in Fashion, 1688
from the translation by Behn of La Pluralite des Deux Mondes (The Theory or System of Several New Inhabited Worlds): "The Author's Preface", 1700
Sarah Fyge Field Egerton (1669/72 - 1722/23)
from The Female Advocate, 1686
from Poems on Several Occasions, 1703
Jane Barker (fl 1688 and 1723)
from Poetical Recreations, 1688
from A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies, 1723
* Mary Astell (1666 - 1731)
from A Serious Proposal to the Ladies parts 1 and 2, 1694, 1697
from Some Reflections Upon Marriage . . . . , 1700,
from The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, vol 1: Mary Astell's Preface to the Embassy Letters 1724
Judith Drake (fl. 1696)
from An Essay in Defense of the Female Sex, 1696
* Mary Lee, Lady Chudleigh (1656-1710)
The Ladies Defence, including prefatory material, 1701
from Poems on Several Occasions
Elizabeth Elstob (1683-1756)
from An English-Saxon Homily, . . . . preface, 1709
Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720)
from Miscellany Poems, On Several Occasions
from The Poems of Anne, Countess of Winchelsea
Mary Collier (1689-90 - after 1739)
The Woman's Labour, 1739
from Poems, on Several Occasions, including "Some Remarks of the Author's Life Drawn by Herself , 1762
Sophia (fl 1739 - 41)
from A Woman Not Inferior to Man, 1739
from A Woman's Superior Excellence over Man , 1740
Charlotte Cibber Charke (? - 1760)
from A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Chare, including "The Author to Herself" , 1755
Sarah Robinson Scott (1723-1795)
from A Description of Millenium Hall , 1762
Elizabeth Carter (1717-1806)
from A Series of Letters Between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, vols 1 and 2 , 1809
Mary Scott (Taylor) (1752? - 1793)
Eleanor Butler (1737-1829)
from The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen, 1785-1821
Ann Cromartie Yearsley (1756-1806)
from Poems on Various Subjects: "Autobiographical Narrative", 1787
A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade , 1788
* Catherine Sawbridge Macaulay Graham (1731-1791)
from Letters on Education, 1790
Mary Hays (1759/60-1843)
from Monthly Magazine, July 2, 1796 - March 2, 1797
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
from A Vindication of the Rights of Women, 1792
from The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria , 1798
Mary Anne Radcliffe (1746- after 1810)
from The Female Advocate, 1799
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Folger Collective on Early Women Writers (ed.), 1995, Women Critics 1660-1820 An Anthology, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana
Madeleine de Scudery (1607-1701)
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673)
Preface to The Worlds of Olio (1655)
Letter CXXIII from CCXI Sociable Letters (1664)
Preface to Observations upon Experimental Philosophy (1666)
Preface and Epilogue to The Description of a New World, called the Blazing World (1668)
Aprha Behn (1640? - 1689)
Epistle to the Reader from The Dutch Lover (1673)
Preface
face to The Lucky Chance (1687)
Translator's Preface to A Discovery of New Worlds (1688)
Jane Barker (1652-1727?)
from A Patchwork Screen for the Ladies (1723)
Anne Lefevre Dacier (1654-1720)
Translator's Preface to The Odyssey (1716)
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720)
The Introduction (c. 1720)
The Preface (c. 1720)
To the Nightengale (1713)
Catherine Trotter Cockburn (1679-1749)
Dedication to The Unhappy Penitent, A Tragedy (1701)
Eliizabeth Elstob (1683-1756)
from The Rudiments of Grammer for the English-Saxon Tongue (1715)
Elisa Haywood (1693? - 1756)
from The Female Spectator (1744, 1746)
Elizabeth Cooper (fl. 1735-1740)
Preface to The Muses Library (1737)
Sarah Fielding (1710-1768)
from The Adventures of David Simple (1744)
from Remarks on Clarissa (1749)
from The Cry (with Jane Collier, 1754)
from Preface to The History of the Countess of Dellwyn (1759)
Elizabeth Robinson Montagu (1720-1800)
Dialogue III from Dialogues of the Dead (1760)
from An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear (1769)
Louise d'Epinay (1726-1783)
Review of Diderot's Le Fills naturel from the Correspondance litteraire (1771)
Elizabeth Griffith (1727?-1793)
from The Morality of Shakespeare's Drama Illustrated (1775)
Charloette Ramsay Lennox (1729?-104)
from Shakespeare Illustrated (1753-1754)
Clara Reeve (1729-1807)
from The Progress of Romance (1785)
Sophie Guntermann von LaRoche (1730-1807)
Isabelle van Tuyll de Zuylen de Charriere (1740-1805)
Is Genius Above All Rules? (1788)
Camilla, or The New Novel (1796, fragment)
Mary Alcock (c. 1742 - 1798)
A Receipt for Writing a Novel (1799)
Anna Seward (1742-1809)
Correspondence between Anna Seward and Clara Reeves from the Gentleman's Magazine (1786)
Anna Laetitia Aiken Barbauld (1743-1825)
from "On the Origin and Progress of Novel-Writing" (1810)
from Preface to Richardson, in The British Novelists (1810)
from Preface to Fielding, in The British Novelists (1810)
Hannah Parkhouse Cowley (1743-1809)
"An Address" from A School for Greybeards (1786)
Hannah More (1745-1833)
from Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799)
Stephanie-Felicite Ducrest, Comtesse de Genlis (1746-1830)
from "Preliminary Reflections" to The Influence of Women on frehcn Literature (1811)
Reflections on Comedies of Character (1813)
Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806)
Preface to Desmond (1792)
from Marchmont (1796)
Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820)
Frances Burney d'Arblay (1752-1840)
from Journal (1768)
Author's Preface to Evelina (1778)
Letter to Samuel Crisp (1782)
from Dedication to The Wanderer (1814)
Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784)
On Recollection (1773)
On Imagination (1773)
To S. M., a young African Painter, on seeing his Works (1773)
Elizabeth Simpson Inchbald (1753-1821)
Selected Remarks from The British Theater (1808)
Letter to George Colman, the Younger (1818)
Mary Robinson (1758-1800)
Preface to Sappho and Phaon (1796)
Elizabeth Hamilton (1758-1816)
from "The Breakfast Table" (1818)
Hannah Webster Foster (1758-1840)
from The Boarding School (1798)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
Advertisement to Mary, a Fiction (1788)
Selected Reviews from The Analytical Review (1790)
From Letter to Mary Hays (1792)
On Poetry and our Relish for the Beauties of Nature (1797)
Preface to The Wrongs of Woman: or, Maria (1798)
Mary Hays (1760-1843)
from Letters and Essays, Moral, and Miscellaneous (1793)
Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)
from "Introductory Discourse," Plays on the Passions (1798)
from "To the Reader," from A Series of Plays (1812)
Ann Ward Radcliffe (1764-1823)
On the Supernatural in Poetry (1826)
Dorothea Mendlessohn Veit Schlegel (1764-1839)
from "A Conversation about the Latest Novels by French Women Writers" (1803)
Anne-Louise Germaine Necker de Stael (1766-1817)
Essays on Fictions (1795)
from On Literature (1800)
Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849)
from Letter to Miss Ruxton (1809)
from Letter to Elizabeth Inchbald (1810)
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Selected Letters (1809-1816)
from Northanger Abbey (1818)
from Persuasion (1818)
Rachel Mordecai Lazarus (1788-1838)
from Correspondence with Maria Edgeworth
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Hannay, Margaret Patterson (ed.), 1985, Silent But for the Word: Tudor Women as Patrons, Translators and Writers of Religious Works , Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio
Essays on the following Tudor women writers:
Vives: Instructions of a Christian Woman
Margaret More Roper: Devout Treatise Upon the Pater Noster
Catherine Parr
Marguerite de Navarre: Mirror . . .
Anne Askew: Examinations
Lady Jane Grey
Cooke sisters
Countess of Pembrooke's translation of Phillipe de Mornay's Discours de la vie et de la mort
Mary Sidney
Spenser
Aemilia Lanyer
Elizabeth Cary
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Henderson, Katherine Usher and Barbara F. McManus, 1985, Half-Humankind: Contexts and Texts of the Controversy About Women in England 1540 - 1640 , University of Illinois Press, Urbana
Henderson and McManus include writers on both sides of the feminist issue. I include only pro-feminist authors. They include the entire documents.
Edward Gosynhill, 1542?
Jane Anger, fl. 1589
Ester Sowernam, fl. 1617
Constanty Munda (Moral Constancy), fl. 1617
Mary Tattlewell and Joan Hit-him-home
The Women's Sharp Revenge
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Mahl, Mary R. and Helene Koon, The Female Spectator: English Women Writers Before 1800, Indiana University Press, 1977
Dame Julian of Norwich from XVI Revelations of Divine Love
Dame Margaret Kempe from The Book of Margery Kempe
Queen Catherine Parr from The Lamentations of a Sinner
from Prayers or Meditations
Queen Elizabeth Speech to the Troops at Tilbury
Speech to the Parliment
Elizabeth Grymestonfrom Miscelanea: Prayers, Meditations, Memoratives
Mary Sidney Herbert To the Thrice Sacred Queen Elizabeth
The Psalmes of David
Aemelia Lanier from Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
Elizabeth Clinton from the Countess of Lincoln's Nurserie
Elizabeth Cary from The Tragedie of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry
Bathsua Reginald Makin
Margaret Cavendish Nature's Pictures, Drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life
Katherine Philips "To Rosania and Lucasia, Articles of Friendship"
Selections from Poems
Aphra Behn The Unfortunate Bride, or the Blind Lady a Beauty
Mary Delariviere Manley "The Wife's Resentment" from The Power of Love
Susannah Centilivre
Eliza Haywood Selections from The Female Spectator
Frances Glanville Boscawen Letters to Elizabeth Robinson Montagu
Anna Laetitia BarbauldLetters from Works
On Female Studies
Letters I and II
Hannah More Letters to Elizabeth Robinson Montagu
Practical Use of Female Knowledge
Anna Seward Letters to Edward Jerningham
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Blackwell, Jeannine and Susanne Zantop, Bitter Healing: German Women Writers 1700-1830, an anthology, U. of Nebraska Press, 1990
Johanna Eleonore Petersen The Life of Johanna Eleonore Petersen
Luise Adelgunde Gottshed
Anna Luisa Karsch Autobiographical Letter to Professor Sulzer
Anger at War, When it Lasted Too Long
In Praise of Black Cherries
Sophie von La Roche
Philippine Gatterer Englehard
Benedikte Naubert
Caroline Schlegel-Schelling
Henriette Herz
Dorothea Schlegel
Caroline Auguste Fischer
Sophie Mereau Spring
To a Trellised Tree
Flight to the City
Rahel Varnhagen
Karoline von Gunderrode Selected Letters
Once a Dulcet Life Was Mine
The Prime Lament
Apocalypitcal Fragment
Bettian von Arnim The Queen's Son
Report on Gunderrode's Suicide
Annette von Droste-Hulshoff
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Ceplair, Larry (ed.), The Public Years of Sarah and Angelina Grimke , Selected Writings 1836-1839, Columbia University Press, 1989
Major documents include:
Appeal to the Christian Women of the South (Angelina)
An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States (Sarah)
Letters to Catherine Beecher, in reply to An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, addressed to A. E. Grimke (Angelina)
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women, addressed to mary S. Parker, President of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society (Sarah)
Speech to the Legislative Committee of the Mass. Legislature, Feb. 21, 1838 (Angelina)
Speech at Pennsylvania Hall, May 16, 1838 (Angelina)
American Slavery As It Is (Sarah and Angelina)
Lots of other letters
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Waelti-Walters, Jennifer and Steven C, Hause, (ed.), Jette Kjaer, Lydia Willis, and
Jennifer Waelti-Walters (trans.) Feminisms of the Belle Eopque: A Historical and Literary Anthology , University of Nebraska Press, 1994
Nelly Roussel
She Who Is Always Sacrificed
"The Freedom of Motherhood"
On Creating Women Citizens
Countess Pierre Lecointre
The State of the Feminist Question in France
Therese Pottecher
"The Feminist Movement in France: Public Opinion"
Marcelle Tinayre
On the Ideal Education for Women
Harlor
"The Education of Women's Will"
Gabrielle Reval
On the Strugle of Educated Women
Louise-Marie Compain
On the Development of the Education of Women
"The Consequences of Woman's Work"
On Equality within a Marriage
Charles Thiebaux
On the Pedagogical Emancipation of Women
Madeleine Pelletier
A Feminist Education for Girls
"One Morality for Both Sexes"
On the Right to Abortion
Clotilde Dissard
On the Protection of Women's Work
Marie Bonnevial
On the Rights of Working Women
Helene Brion
On Feminist and Socialist Views of Working Women
Ghenia Avril de Sainte-Croix
Prostitutes as Female Serfs
Case Studies of Belle Epoque Prostitutes
Hubertine Auclert
On Marriage and the Law
On the Political Rights of Women
Leopold Lacour
On Complete Male-Female Equality
Colette Yver
On the Double Standard in Careers and Marriage
Marcelle Tinayre
On Unmarried Mothers and Institutionalized Pregnancy
Lucie Delarue-Madrus
On Rape and Illegitimate Birth
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Rossi, Alice S. 1973, The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir , Columbia University Press, reprinted 1988 Northeastern University Press, Boston
Abigail Adams
"Remember the Ladies": Abigail Adams vs. John Adams
from Selected Letters from the Adams Family
* Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820)
from On the Equality of the Sexes
* Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Francess Wright (1795-1852)
from Education
from Of Free Enquiry
* Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)
Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)
from The Great Lawsuit, Man versus Man, Woman versus Man
* John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
from The Subjection of Women
* Sarah Grimke (179-1873)
from Letters on the Equality of the Sexes
* Angelina Grimke Weld (1805-1879)
from Appeal to the Christian Woman of the South
rom Letters to Catherine Beecher
Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell
from Medicine as a Proefession for Women
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
* Elizabeth Cady Stanton (ECS) (1815-1902)
from Motherhood
from The Woman's Bible
* Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), ECS, and Matilda Joslyn Gage
from The History of Woman Suffrage
* Friedrich Engles (1820 - 1895)
from The Origin of the Family
August Bebel (1840-1913)
Emma Goldman (1869-1940)
from The Tradgedy of Woman's Emancipation
Margaret Sanger (1879-1966)
from My Fight for Birth Control
from Birth Control - A Parent's Problem or a Woman's?
Suzzanne LaFolette (b. 1893)
* Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
Jane Adams (1860-1935)
from Utilization of Women in City Government
* Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
* Margaret Mead (b. 1901)
* Simone de Beauvoir (b. 1908)
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