Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: toward a new conception of women's literary history / Anke Gilleir and Alicia C. Montoya -- 'To promote God's praise and her neighbour's salvation'. Strategies of authorship and readership among mystic women in the later Middle Ages / Madeleine Jeay and Kathleen Garay -- Gendering place: the role of place in Anne Krabbe's Ballad works / Anne-Marie Mai -- 'To make frequent assemblies, associations, and combinations amongst our sex.' Nascent ideas of female bonding in seventeenth-century England / Ina Schabert -- Women and literary sociability in eighteenth-century Lisbon / Vanda An�astacio -- Female writing and the use of literary byways. Pastoral drama by Maddalena Campiglia (1553-1595) / Philiep Bossier -- Prescriptions for women: alchemy, medicine and the renaissance Querelle des femmes / Meredith K. Ray -- The appropriation of the genre of nuptial poetry by Katharina Lescailje (1649-1711) / Nina Geerdink -- Madame De Maintenon Au Miroir de sa correspondance: r�ehabilitation du personnage et red�ecouverte d'une �ecriture f�eminine / Christine Mongenot and Hans Bots -- French women writers and heroic genres / Perry Gethner -- The tartar girl, the Persian princess, and early modern English women's authorship from Elizabeth II to to Mary Wroth / Bernadette Andrea -- A cloistered nun abroad: Arcangela Tarabotti's international literary career / Lara Lynn Westwater -- Traveller, pedagogue and cultural mediator: Marie-Elisabeth De La Fite and her female context / Ineke Janse -- Translation and intellectual reflection in the works of enlightened Spanish women: In�es Joyes (1731-1808) / M�onica Bolufer -- 'Nous voudrions que les femmes s'occupent de la litt�erature': traductions des romanci�eres fran�caises en russie autour de 1800 / Elena Gretchanaia.

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