Women Interpreters

Aphra Behn (1640-1689) Biography (Distinguished Women), Biography (Sunshine for Women)

• An Essay on Translated Prose (Emory University)
• The City Heiress (University of Virginia)

Annie Besant (1847-1933) Biography (Victorian Web)

• Evolution and Occultism (Derek Davis)
• The Ancient Wisdom (Canadian Theosophical Association)

Eloise Alberta Bibb (1878-1928) Biography (Schomburg AAWW)

• Poems (University of Michigan)

Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825-1921) Biography (ANB), Biography (Distinguished Women), Biography (Oberlin College)

• Correspondence between Lucy Stone (1818-93) and Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825-1921) (Oberlin College)

Lillie Devereax Blake (1833-1915) Biography (Sunshine for Women)

• Are Women a Class? (Emory University)
• Put Us In Your Place (Emory University)
• Who Shall Be Ruler? (Emory University)
• The Woman's Bible (University of Pennsylvania)

Josephine Butler (1828-1906) Biography (Sunshine for Women)

• The Education and Employment of Women (Indiana University)
• Social Purity (Indiana University)
• Truth Before Everything (Indiana University)

Return to the top of the page

Laura Cereta (1469-1499) Biography (University of Chicago)

• Epistolae (Latin with German introduction , University of Mannheim)
• Excerpts from translations in print (Other Women's Voices)

Clara Bewick Colby (1846-1916) Biography (Sunshine for Women)

• The Woman's Bible (University of Pennsylvania)

Margaret Fell (fl 1660-1677) Biography (James Quinn)

• An Evident Demonstration to God's Elect (Brown University)
• A Loving Salutation to the Seed of Abraham (Brown University)
• The Daughter of Zion Awakened (Emory University)
• A True Testimony (Emory University)

Marguerite d'Angouleme (de Navarre) (1492-1549) Biography (Other Women's Voices)

• Fourteen Poems (French, Poésie Française)
• Heptameron (University of Pennsylvania)
• O Dieu, qui les vostres aimez (French, Bartelby)
• To be a worthy and good Christian (Pour etre ...) (French/English, Faith J. Cormier)

Christine de Pizan (c.1364-1430) Biography (Sunshine for Women), Biography (Distinguished Women)

• Excerpts from translations in print (Other Women's Voices)

Sarah Fyge Egerton (1670-1723) Biography (Sunshine for Women)

• Female Advocate (Emory University)

Return to the top of the page

Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826-1898) Biography (ANB), Biography (Sunshine for Women)

• Woman, Church and State (Outline, Sunshine for Women)
• Woman, Church and State (Full Text, Sacred Text Archive)
• The Woman's Bible (University of Pennsylvania)

Sarah Grimke (1792-1873) Biography (ANB), Biography (Sunshine for Women)

• Letters on the Equality of the Sexes (Sunshine for Women)

Sarah Hale (1788-1879) Biography (SSAWW)

• Selected Works (SSAWW)
• Godey's Ladies' Book (University of Vermont)

Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) Biography (Sunshine for Women)

• The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen. Vol. 1 (netLibrary)
• Ordo Virtutum (Boise State, translated by Linda Marie Zaerr)
• Texts From the Chants of Hildegard von Bingen (Healingchants.com)

Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) Biography (Sunshine for Women)

•  Salue deus rex iudæorum (Brown University)

Penina Moise (1797-1880) Biography (Jewish Virtual Library), Biography (AJHS)

• Poems in Fancy's Sketchbook (Brown University)

Lady (Sydney Owenson) Morgan (1776-1859) Biography (Mary Campbell)

• Passages from My Autobiography (Sydney Owenson Online)
• Lay of an Irish Harp (University of California)

Return to the top of the page

Isotta Nogarola (c.1418-1466) Biography (Other Women's Voices), Biography (Sunshine for Women)

• Letter (Sunshine for Women)
• Of the Equal or Unequal Sin of Adam and Eve (Sunshine for Women)

Mary Petrie (Carus-Wilson) (fl. 1840-1932) Biography (Emory University)

• “Bible Teaching Old and New” (1893, Ambleside Online)
• "The Last Commandment" (1893, Ambleside Online)
• Clews to Holy Writ (1893, Canadiana Online)
• “To You and Your Children: Some Thoughts for Young Mothers” (1896, Ambleside Online)

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) Biography (Victorian Web), Biography (Project Canterbury)

• Individual Poems of Christina Rossetti (Victorian Web)
• Selected Poetry of Christina Rossetti (Univeristy of Toronto)
• Sing Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book (University of Pennsylvania)

Julia Smith (1792-1886) Biography (ANB)

• Preface to Julia Smith's 1876 Bible translation (Houston Baptist University)

Ester Sowernam (fl.1617) Biography (Sunshine for Women)

• Ester hath hang'd Haman (Sunshine for Women)

Rachel Speght (b. 1597) Biography (Sunshine for Women)

• Mortality's Memorandum (Brown University)
• A Muzzle for Melastomus (Brown University)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) Biography (ANB), Biography (Sunshine for Women)

• Eighty Years And More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 (University of Pennsylvania)
• The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (Rutgers Univeristy)
• The Woman's Bible (University of Pennsylvania)
• Has Christianity Benefited Women? (Emory University)
• Bible and Church Degrade Women (Library of Congress)

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) Biography (ANB), Biography (University of Pennsylvania)

• The American Woman's Home, or, Principles of Domestic Science (University of Pennsylvania)
• The Education of Freedmen. Vol. 1 (netLibrary)
• The Education of Freedmen. Vol. 2 (netLibrary)
• The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Compiled from Her Letters and Journals (University of Pennsylvania)
• Poganuc People : Their Loves and Lives (netLibrary)
• Queer Little Folks (University of Pennsylvania)
• Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands (Volume II) (University of Pennsylvania)
• The Twelve Months : A New Year's Dream (netLibrary)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin (netLibrary)
• The Minister's Wooing (University of Michigan)
• Women in Sacred History (University of Michigan)

Return to the top of the page

Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678) Biography (Other Women's Voices)

• Opuscula hebraea, graeca, latina, gallica, prosaica et metrica (in German, University of Mannheim)
• Three Poems (University of Leiden)

Angelina Grimke Weld (1805-1879) Biography (ANB), Biography (Sunshine for Women)

• Appeal to Christian Women of the South (University of Virginia)

Mary Witter (fl. 1870-1900)

• A Book for the Young (Canadiana Online)
• The Edomites (Canadiana Online)

Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901) Biography (MYF), Biography (Literary Encyclopedia)

• Selected Works (CMYF)
• A Book of Golden Deeds (University of Pennsylvania)
• The Chosen People (University of Pennsylvania)

Return to the top of the page