Research Guides: ENGL 301: Pre-Modern Women Writers (HC): Texts and Translations

Series Featuring Women Authors

In recent years publishers have begun to bring out series of translations of texts written by women or for women during the Middle Ages. See in particular:

Early English Books Online (EEBO)
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Contains digital images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
Use the Text Creation Partnership version of EEBO for enhanced texts with more readability and better searching.

Other Voice in Early Modern Europe
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This important and long-running series publishes translations of medieval and early modern texts, primarily written by women from Europe and the Americas. Use the tricollege links to see titles available locally.
Library of Medieval Women
Boydell & Brewer's list of all titles currently in the series. Check Tripod for individual titles.

Women Writers Online
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This full-text collection of early women's writing in English covers publications from 1526 to 1850, focusing on those works that are rare.

Matrologia Series
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Peregrina Publishing brought out this series of medieval women's texts from 1986-2005. Use the tricollege links to see series titles available locally.
Some texts are also available online on the Monastic Matrix website.

Women Writers Online
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Offers over 400 hundred full-text works in English by women writers active from 1400-1850.

Feminae Listings of Translations

The database Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index has featured a Translation of the Month since 2010. Many of the featured texts were written by women. You can browse the descriptions or do a Find for specific topics or names.

Feminae also indexes translations, both complete texts and excerpts from anthologies.

Go to the Advanced Search Page, and enter Translation in the Article Type box.
In the Keyword box enter your topic or you can specify a name in the Author box. You can also specify century and geographic area (British Isles, France, Germany, etc.) in those search boxes.