OVIEME series bibliography @ 9/2005: Primary sources

Alberti, Leon Battista (1404–72).  The Family in Renaissance Florence.  Trans. Renée Neu Watkins.  Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1969.

Arenal, Electa and Stacey Schlau, eds.  Untold Sisters: Hispanic Nuns in Their Own Works.  Trans. Amanda Powell.  Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1989.

Astell, Mary (1666–1731).  The First English Feminist: Reflections on Marriage and Other Writings.  Ed. and Introd. Bridget Hill.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986.

Atherton, Margaret, ed.  Women Philosophers of the Early Modern Period.  Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Co., 1994.

Aughterson, Kate, ed.  Renaissance Woman: Constructions of Femininity in England: A Source Book.  London & New York: Routledge, 1995.

Barbaro, Francesco (1390–1454).  On Wifely Duties.  Trans. Benjamin Kohl in Kohl and R. G. Witt, eds., The Earthly Republic.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978, 179-228.  Translation of the Preface and Book 2.

Behn, Aphra.  The Works of Aphra Behn.  7 vols.  Ed. Janet Todd.  Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1992–96.

Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313–75).  Famous Women.  Ed. and trans. Virginia Brown.  The I Tatti Renaissance Library.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.

_____.  Corbaccio or the Labyrinth of Love.  Trans. Anthony K. Cassell.  Second revised edition.  Binghamton, NY: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1993.

Booy, David, ed. Autobiographical Writings by Early Quaker Women. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2004.

Brown, Sylvia.  Women’s Writing in Stuart England: The Mother’s Legacies of Dorothy Leigh, Elizabeth Joscelin and Elizabeth Richardson.  Thrupp, Stroud, Gloceter: Sutton, 1999.

Bruni, Leonardo (1370–1444).  "On the Study of Literature (1405) to Lady Battista Malatesta of Moltefeltro." In The Humanism of Leonardo Bruni: Selected Texts.  Trans. and Introd. Gordon Griffiths, James Hankins, and David Thompson.  Binghamton, NY: Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Texts, 1987, 240–51.

Castiglione, Baldassare (1478–1529).  The Book of the Courtier.  Trans. George Bull.  New York: Penguin, 1967; The Book of the Courtier. Ed. Daniel Javitch. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2002.

Christine de Pizan (1365–1431).  The Book of the City of Ladies.  Trans. Earl Jeffrey Richards.  Foreward Marina Warner.  New York: Persea Books, 1982.

_____.  The Treasure of the City of Ladies.  Trans. Sarah Lawson.  New York: Viking Penguin, 1985.  Also trans. and introd. Charity Cannon Willard.  Ed. and introd. Madeleine P. Cosman.  New York: Persea Books, 1989.

Clarke, Danielle, ed.  Isabella Whitney, Mary Sidney and Aemilia Lanyer: Renaissance Women Poets.  New York: Penguin Books, 2000.

Crawford, Patricia and Laura Gowing, eds.  Women’s Worlds in Seventeenth-Century England:  A Source Book.  London & New York: Routledge, 2000.

“Custome Is an Idiot”: Jcobean Pamphlet Literature on Women. Ed. Susan Gushee O’Malley. Afterword Ann Rosalind Jones. Chicago and Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004.

Daybell, James, ed.  Early Modern Women’s Letter Writing, 1450–1700.  Houndmills, England & New York: Palgrave, 2001.

De Erauso, Catalina.  Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World.  Trans. Michele Ttepto & Gabriel Stepto; foreword by Marjorie Garber.  Boston: Beacon Press, 1995.

Elizabeth I: Collected Works.  Ed. Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, and Mary Beth Rose.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Elyot, Thomas (1490–1546).  Defence of Good Women: The Feminist Controversy of the Renaissance.  Facsimile Reproductions.  Ed. Diane Bornstein.  New York: Delmar, 1980.

Erasmus, Desiderius (1467–1536).  Erasmus on Women.  Ed. Erika Rummel.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996.

Female and Male Voices in Early Modern England: An Anthology of Renaissance Writing.  Ed. Betty S. Travitsky and Anne Lake Prescott.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.

Ferguson, Moira, ed.  First Feminists: British Women Writers 1578–1799.  Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1985.

Galilei, Maria Celeste.  Sister Maria Celeste’s Letters to her father, Galileo.  Ed. and trans. Rinaldina Russell.  Lincoln, NE & New York: Writers Club Press of Universe.com, 2000; To Father: The Letters of Sister Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623–1633. Trans. Dava Sobel. London: Fourth Estate, 2001.

Gethner, Perry, ed.  The Lunatic Lover and Other Plays by French Women of the 17^th and 18^th Centuries.  Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1994.

Glückel of Hameln (1646–1724).  The Memoirs of Glückel of Hameln.  Trans. Marvin Lowenthal.  New Introd. Robert Rosen.  New York: Schocken Books, 1977.

Harline, Craig, ed. The Burdens of Sister Margaret: Inside a Seventeenth-Century Convent. New Haven: Yale University Press, abr. ed., 2000.

Henderson, Katherine Usher and Barbara F. McManus, eds.  Half Humankind: Contexts and Texts of the Controversy about Women in England, 1540–1640.  Urbana, IL: Indiana University Press, 1985.

Hoby, Margaret. The Private Life of an Elizabethan Lady: The Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby 1599–1605.  Phoenix Mill, Great Britain: Sutton Publishing, 1998.

Humanist Educational Treatises.  Ed. and trans. Craig W. Kallendorf.  The I Tatti Renaissance Library.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.

Hunter, Lynette, ed. The Letters of Dorothy Moore, 1612–64. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2004.

Joscelin, Elizabeth.  The Mothers Legacy to her Unborn Childe.  Ed. Jean leDrew Metcalfe.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000.

Kaminsky, Amy Katz, ed.  Water Lilies, Flores del agua: An Anthology of Spanish Women Writers from the Fifteenth Through the Nineteenth Century.  Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.

Kempe, Margery (1373–1439).  The Book of Margery Kempe.  Trans. and ed. Lynn Staley.  A Norton Critical Edition.  New York: W.W. Norton, 2001.

King, Margaret L., and Albert Rabil, Jr., eds.  Her Immaculate Hand: Selected Works by and about the Women Humanists of Quattrocento Italy.  Binghamton, NY: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1983; second revised paperback edition, 1991.

Klein, Joan Larsen, ed.  Daughters, Wives, and Widows: Writings by Men about Women and Marriage in England, 1500–1640.  Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1992.

Knox, John (1505–72).  The Political Writings of John Knox: The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women and Other Selected Works.  Ed. Marvin A. Breslow.  Washington: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1985.

Kors, Alan C., and Edward Peters, eds.  Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.

Krämer, Heinrich, and Jacob Sprenger.  Malleus Maleficarum (ca. 1487).  Trans. Montague Summers.  London: Pushkin Press, 1928; reprinted New York: Dover, 1971.

Larsen, Anne R. and Colette H. Winn, eds.  Writings by Pre-Revolutionary French Women: From Marie de France to Elizabeth Vigée-Le Brun.  New York & London: Garland Publishing Co., 2000.

de Lorris, William, and Jean de Meun.  The Romance of the Rose.  Trans. Charles Dahlbert.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971; reprinted University Press of New England, 1983.

Marcus, Leah S., Janel Mueller, and Mary Beth Rose, eds. Elizabeth I: Collected Works. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Marguerite d’Angoulême, Queen of Navarre (1492–1549).  The Heptameron.  Trans. P. A. Chilton.  New York: Viking Penguin, 1984.

Mary of Agreda.  The Divine Life of the Most Holy Virgin.  Abridgment of The Mystical City of God.  Abr. by Fr. Bonaventure Amedeo de Caesarea, M.C.  Trans. from French by Abbé Joseph A. Boullan.  Rockford, IL: Tan Books, 1997.

Mullan, David George. Women’s Life Writing in Early Modern Scotland: Writing the Evangelical Self, c. 1670–c. 1730. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2003.

Myers, Kathleen A. and Amanda Powell, eds.  A Wild Country Out in the Garden: The Spiritual Journals of a Colonial Mexican Nun.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.

Russell, Rinaldina, ed.  Sister Maria Celeste’s Letters to Her Father, Galileo.  San Jose & New York: Writers Club Press, 2000.

Teresa of Avila, Saint (1515–82).  The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself.  Trans. J. M. Cohen.  New York: Viking Penguin, 1957.

_____. The Collected Letters of St. Teresa of Avila. Volume One: 1546–1577, trans. Kieran Kavanaugh. Washington, DC: Institute of Carmelite Studies, 2001. Volume two is forthcoming.

Travitsky, Betty, ed. The Paradise of Women: Writings by Entlishwomen of the Renaissance. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981.

Weyer, Johann (1515–88).  Witches, Devils, and Doctors in the Renaissance: Johann Weyer, De praestigiis daemonum.  Ed. George Mora with Benjamin G. Kohl, Erik Midelfort, and Helen Bacon.  Trans. John Shea.  Binghamton, NY: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1991.

Wilson, Katharina M., ed.  Medieval Women Writers.  Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1984.

_____, ed.  Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation.  Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1987.

_____, and Frank J. Warnke, eds.  Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century.  Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1989.

Wollstonecraft, Mary.  A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Women.  Ed. Sylvana Tomaselli.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.  Also The Vindications of the Rights of Men, The Rights of Women. Ed. D. L. Macdonald & Kathleen Scherf.  Peterborough, Ontario, Canada: Broadview Press, 1997.

Women Critics 1660–1820: An Anthology.  Edited by the Folger Collective on Early Women Critics.                    Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995.

Women Writers in English 1350–1850: 15 published through 1999 (projected 30-volume series suspended).  Oxford University Press.

Wroth, Lady Mary.  The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania.  2 parts.  Ed. Josephine A. Roberts.  Tempe, AZ: MRTS, 1995, 1999. 

_____.  Lady Mary Wroth’s “Love’s Victory”: The Penshurst Manuscript.  Ed. Michael G. Brennan.  London: The Roxburghe Club, 1988.

_____.  The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth.  Ed. Josephine A. Roberts.  Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1983.

de Zayas Maria.  The Disenchantments of Love.  Trans. H. Patsy Boyer.  Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1997.

_____.  The Enchantments of Love: Amorous and Exemplary Novels.  Trans. H. Patsy Boyer.  Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990.