Database:
Bibliography of English Women Writers (1500-1640)
Iter Press

About this Database

Compiled by Betty S. Travitsky, A Bibliography of English Women Writers 1500-1640 has evolved from an effort to compile a “comprehensive” record of often quaint past scholarship on some 180 known women writers into an open-ended work of scholarship currently listing 738 recovered writers and their texts, canonical and non-canonical. Including already familiar figures as well as less-known and hitherto unknown English women writers–refugees such as women recusants, women in the colonies, Marrano women (Anusot), women translators and English women writers in French, Greek, Latin, Spanish, Gaelic and Welsh–the bibliography functions not only as a listing of mushrooming scholarship, but also as a roster of English women writers, 1500-1640.