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Women's & Gender Studies

Agnes Blannbekin, Viennese Beguine: Life and Revelations
Series: Library of Medieval Women
Female mysticism, usually nourished in contemplative surroundings, in Blannbekin's case drew its inspiration from urban life; Weidhaus identifies her visions as 'street mysticism'.

All Saints Sisters of the Poor
Series: Church of England Record Society
The life of a Victorian religious community, both within the privacy of the convent and in its work in the wider world, including front-line nursing.

Amazons and Apprentices
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Examines the role of women -- particularly Luise Gottsched and Christiane von Ziegler -- in the Gottsched circle's early 18th-century efforts to reform and revitalize German intellectual life.

Ancrene Wisse, the Katherine Group, and the Wooing Group
Series: Annotated Bibliographies
Bibliography of prose works offering unique evidence for the nature of women's religious experience in medieval England, with scholarly introduction.

Angela of Foligno's Memorial - paperback
Series: Library of Medieval Women
The powerful voice of major Italian medieval woman mystic, translated with commentary. The mystical experience of an important Italian mystic presented in accessible translation, with full elucidatory material.

Angeles Mastretta
Series: Monografías A
The first major study on the works of the Mexican novelist, Angeles Mastretta, demonstrating the rich complexity and range of the author's fiction and essays.

Anne of France: Lessons for my Daughter
Series: Library of Medieval Women
Anne of France (1461-1522) composed these lessons - presented as a portrait of an ideal princess - as guidance in negotiating the pitfalls facing a woman in the world of politics.

Approaching Emily Dickinson
Series: Literary Criticism in Perspective
An examination of the past half-century's critical reassessments of one of the most-studied American poets.

Approaching Medieval English Anchoritic and Mystical Texts
Series: Christianity and Culture: Issues in Teaching/Research
Essays suggesting new ways of studying the crucial but sometimes difficult range of medieval mystical material.

Authority and the Female Body in the Writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe
Series: Studies in Medieval Mysticism
An examination of ways in which the writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe were affected by traditional and contemporary attitudes towards women.

The Beginning of Women's Ministry
Series: Church of England Record Society
Extracts from journals, diaries and official guidelines give a full picture of the role of the Victorian Deaconness.

Birgitta of Sweden and the Voice of Prophecy
Series: Studies in Medieval Mysticism
Birgitta's religious authority considered, with regard to her prophetic mission and her authenticity as a medium of divine revelation in 14c Europe.

The Body and Eucharistic Devotion in Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg's 'Meditations'
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
New study of the writings of Catharina von Greiffenberg, the German Baroque religious author.

The Book of Margery Kempe: Annotated Edition
Fully-annotated edition of English mystic Margery Kempe's life and divine revelations [dated 1436-8]. [This edition previously published by Longman.]

The Book of Margery Kempe vol I Text
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

The Book of Margery Kempe
Series: Library of Medieval Women
Margery Kempe's text draws on her maternal, female body to illuminate her relationship to the divine.

The Bousfield Diaries
Series: Publications Bedfordshire Hist Rec Soc
Diaries of a Victorian wife and mother, active in local society, paint a fascinating picture of provincial life at the time.

Brother Hermann's 'Life of the Countess Yolanda of Vianden' [Leben der Graefen Iolande von Vianden]
Series: Medieval Texts & Translations
First translation into English of the medieval German Leben der Graefen Iolanda, making it accessible to a wider audience.

Caritas Pirckheimer: A Journal of the Reformation Years, 1524-1528
Series: Library of Medieval Women
Caritas Pirckheimer was the abbess of St Clare's in Nürnberg. Her Journal depicts her struggle against the city council's attempts to reform and close her nunnery.

The Case of Hans Henny Jahnn
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
The first full-length study of the literary criticism on the works of the controversial twentieth-century German writer Hans Henny Jahnn.

Cassandra Brydges (1670-1735), First Duchess of Chandos
Letters from one of the most fascinating women of her age illuminate her wide range of social, business and intellectual pursuits.

The Charters of Duchess Constance of Brittany and her Family, 1171-1221
Ducal charters illuminate politics, external relations, and the conduct of government, and also Breton society and institutions.


Chaucer's Approach to Gender in the Canterbury Tales
Series: Chaucer Studies
An original feminist approach, through a study of Chaucer's treatment of masculinity, to the Canterbury Tales

Childhood in the Works of Silvina Ocampo and Alejandra Pizarnik
Series: Monografías A
Two key figures of Argentine 20th-century literature are brought together in this study, which explores the leitmotiv of childhood in their work.

Christabel Pankhurst: Fundamentalism and Feminism in Coalition
Series: Studies in Modern British Religious History
Christabel Pankhurst, one of the leading champions of women's suffrage in Britain, entered the evangelical world after the first world war as a preacher of the second coming. Larsen shows that the two causes, far from being automatically antagonistic, could be complementary.

Christine de Pizan's Letter of Othea to Hector - paperback
Series: Library of Medieval Women

Commodities of Desire
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
The first collection of essays treating exclusively the figure of the prostitute in modern German literature.

A Companion to 'Ancrene Wisse'
Ancrene Wisse introduced through a variety of cultural and critical approaches which establish the originality and interest of the treatise.

A Companion to the Book of Margery Kempe
Margery Kempe and her Book studied in both literary and historical context.

A Companion to Carmen Martín Gaite
Series: Monografías A
One of Spain's most important twentieth-century women writers

A Companion to Julian of Norwich
One of the most important medieval writers studied in historical and literary context.

Conquering the Reign of Femeny
Series: Chaucer Studies
Close study of Chaucer's most important works shows how he used gender issues to extend the range of romance.

Contemporary British Women Writers
Series: Essays and Studies
Essays illustrating the range and diversity of post-1970 British women writers.

The Convent and the Community in Late Medieval England
Series: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion
Detailed study of female monasticism in the later middle ages, with particular emphasis on the nuns' importance to the local community.

Conversations in Cold Rooms
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
A study of poor women in 19c Northumberland, showing how their poverty was exacerbated by their gender and by prevailing attitudes towards women.

The Critical Fortunes of Aphra Behn
Series: Studies in English and American Literature and Culture

Critical Spaces
Series: Literary Criticism in Perspective
First major critical study and comparison of two important female writers, the Canadian Margaret Laurence and the New Zealander Janet Frame.

The Cult of St Katherine of Alexandria in Late Medieval England
First large-scale study of widespread saint's cult reveals valuable detail of medieval life.

Daughters, Wives and Widows after the Black Death
Did the expanding economic life of England after the Black Death improve the lot of women, as is commonly thought? This study argues not.

The Education and Employment of Girls in Luton, 1874-1924
Series: Publications Bedfordshire Hist Rec Soc
Accessibly written study of female education and employment in Luton, an area where women had much economic independence from an early age.

The Emergence of the Modern German Novel
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
A study of the rise of the German novel viewed from a feminist standpoint.

The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle, Gonville and Caius College MS. 234/120
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle Magdalene College Cambridge MS. Pepys 2498
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

English Text of the Ancrene Riwle British Museum MS. Royal c. VI
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

English Text of the Ancrene Riwle, BM MS Cotton Titus D xviii
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

The English Text Ancrene Riwle BM Cleopatra Cotton Cleopatra C vi
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle British Museum MS. Cotton Nero A.xiv.
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain
An examination of the erotic in medieval literature which includes articles on the role of clothing and nudity, the tension between eroticism and transgression and religion and the erotic.

Ethics and Remembrance in the Poetry of Nelly Sachs and Rose Ausländer
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
The first comparative study in English of two German-Jewish women poets who survived the Nazi genocide but did not escape its effects.

Family Secrets and the Contemporary German Novel
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
A analysis of recent German novelistic treatments of the effect of the Nazi past on the relationships between parents and children.

Feminist Linguistics in Literary Criticism
Series: Essays and Studies
Essays employing close scrutiny of texts to clarify gender issues in feminist literary criticism.

Feminizing Chaucer - paperback
Series: Chaucer Studies
An investigation of Chaucer's thinking about women, assessed in the light of developments in feminist criticism.

Fervor and Fiction
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Exploration of the life and works of important but little-known 19th-century German woman writer.

The French Text of the Ancrene Riwle British Museum MS. Cotton Vitellius F. vii
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

The French Text of the Ancrene Riwle Trinity Coll Cambridge MS R 14 7 with variants from Paris Bibliotheque Nationale MS fonds fr 6276 & Bodley
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Gender and Petty Crime in Late Medieval England
Series: Gender in the Middle Ages
First full-length study of the relations between gender and crime in late medieval England.

Gender and Medieval Drama
Series: Gender in the Middle Ages
An investigation of the public image of women as presented in contemporary drama.

Gender, Crime and Judicial Discretion, 1780-1830
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series

Gender, Nation and Conquest in the Works of William of Malmesbury
Series: Gender in the Middle Ages
A fresh new approach to the works of William of Malmesbury, looking in particular at his presentation of men and women.

Gender and Space in Early Modern England
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
A nuanced re-evaluation of the ways in which gender affected the use of physical space in early modern England.

Goscelin of St Bertin: The Book of Encouragement and Consolation [Liber Confortatorius]
Series: Library of Medieval Women
Late eleventh century spiritual counsel for a woman recluse, anticipating medieval advice literature for anchoresses.

The Gothic Fiction of Adelaida García Morales
Series: Monografías A
By highlighting features common to the Gothic classics and the works of Adelaida García Morales, this monograph aims to put the Gothic on the map in Hispanic Studies.

Guidance for Women in Twelfth-Century Convents
Series: Library of Medieval Women
Collection of letters and texts offering guidance for nuns, and including selections from Abelard's letters to Heloise.

Hali Meidhad
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Helena of Britain in Medieval Legend
The first study to examine the origins, development, political exploitation and decline of the legend of St Helena, tracing its momentum and adaptive power from Anglo-Saxon England onwards.

The Heroines of English Pastoral Romance
Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature
The figure of the woman as hero in pastoral romance is shown to grow in importance and complexity in this important new study.

Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
Series: Library of Medieval Women
Selection of the works of Hrotsvit, the first-known woman dramatist, containing legends, dramas, and epics.

Iris Murdoch's Paradoxical Novels
Series: Studies in English and American Literature and Culture
The first study of the literary criticism on Murdoch's novels.

Joan of Arc: The Early Debate - paperback
[Does] an immense service to anyone interested in Joan of Arc... skillfully disentangles countless textual threads, all centered around one problem: the nature of Joan's mission as it was examined in the early theological debates... A thorough and timely book. MYSTICS QUARTERLY

John Capgrave
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Juan Carlos Onetti, Manuel Puig and Luisa Valenzuela
Series: Monografías A
Onetti, Puig and Valenzuela, writers linked by their common geography and history, share and explore a post-colonial emptiness, a constant questioning of realism and a love of tango.

Julian of Norwich
Series: Studies in Medieval Mysticism
A new reading of the Revelations in the context of late-medieval manuscript traditions.

Julian of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love and The Motherhood of God
Series: Library of Medieval Women
Frances Beer chooses Julian's first, more intimate, Revelationson which to base this accessible edition and study of her life and work.

Late-Medieval German Women's Poetry
Series: Library of Medieval Women
A considerable collection of German women's poetry in translation, results of ingenious archival research.

The Latin Text of the Ancrene Riwle from Merton College MS 44 and British Museum MS Cotton Vitellius E. vii
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Leadership in Medieval English Nunneries
Series: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion
Examination of the role of the convent superior in the middle ages, underlining the amount of power and responsibility at her command.

The Letters of the Rozmberk Sisters
Series: Library of Medieval Women
Women in 15c Bohemia express themselves on marriage, companionship, daily castle life, and family relations.

The Liber Celestis of St Bridget of Sweden vol I
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

The Life of Saint Douceline, a Beguine of Provence
Series: Library of Medieval Women
Douceline de Digne, founder of the beguine community of the Ladies of Roubaud in Provence, was an important woman mystic of her time; contextual material includes comparison with the beguines of northern Europe.

Liflade ant te Passiun of Seinte Iuliene [pe
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Lily Braun (1865-1916)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
First book-length treatment of the famous German feminist and writer.

Little Detours
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
A critical re-examination of the most pivotal of German female authors of the Enlightenment, focusing on her letters and plays.

The Lives of Women Saints
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Long Shadows
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Short stories from one of Germany's leading twentieth-century woman writers.

Margaret Atwood
Series: European Studies in American Literature and Culture
A collection of new essays on the multi-talented Canadian writer Margaret Atwood.

Margaret of Anjou
Margaret's exercise of power examined, its effects, and the opposition it created.

Margaret of Anjou - paperback

Marriage, Adultery and Inheritance in Malory's Morte Darthur
Series: Arthurian Studies
An exploration of how Malory deals with the themes of love, marriage and adultery, revealing the socially conservative vantage of the gentry and nobility.

Marriage in Medieval England: Law, Literature and Practice
A survey of attitudes to marriage as represented in medieval legal and literary texts.

Mary Ward (1585-1645): `A Briefe Relation', with Autobiographical Fragments and a Selection of Letters
Series: Catholic Record Society: Records Series

Masculinities in Chaucer
Series: Chaucer Studies
Representations of masculinity in Chaucer's works examined through modern critical theory.

Matilda of Scotland
A study of Matilda of Scotland (wife to Henry I) and the political acumen and personal skills she brought to the role of queen.

Matrons and Marginal Women in Medieval Society
Exploration of differences between women: good women who were absorbed into society, and those whose social role condemned them to its fringes.

Mechthild of Magdeburg: Selections from `The Flowing Light of the Godhead'
Series: Library of Medieval Women
Selections from this widely varied original mystical treatise offer insight into the lives of C13 female religious in northern Europe.

Mechthild von Magdeburg
Series: Literary Criticism in Perspective
A survey of critical literature devoted to Mechthild and her Flowing Light of Godhead.

Medieval Clothing and Textiles 2
Series: Medieval Clothing and Textiles
The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines and with a special focus on reconstruction and re-enactment.

Medieval Marriage
Evidence for medieval thinking about marriage, drawn from a number of literary texts.

Medieval Religious Women in the Low Countries
A case study of the Chapter of Windesheim and the texts produced there illuminates the female spiritual experience of the Modern Devotion, a northern European movement of the late fourteenth century.

Medieval Women and the Law - paperback
Legal records illuminate womens' use of legal processes, with regard to the making of wills, the age of consent, rights concerning marriage and children, women as traders, etc.

The Memoirs of Helene Kottanner (1439-1440) - paperback
Series: Library of Medieval Women
Eye-witness account of the theft of the crown of St Stephen in 15c Hungary.

Men and Masculinities in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
Series: Chaucer Studies
New studies of the problem of medieval masculinity, and Chaucer's treatment of it.

Missionary Women
The first comprehensive study of the role of gender in British Protestant missionary expansion into China and India during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Mothers and Daughters in Post-Revolutionary Mexican Literature
Series: Monografías A
How women, and the generally 'other', are treated in the fiction of four Mexican women writers of the early 20th century.

Moving Reflections: Gender, Faith and Aesthetics in the Work of Angela Figuera Aymerich
Series: Monografías A
Volume exploring the important but neglected Spanish female poet Angela Figuera Aymerich.

'The Music of American Folk Song'
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
This is the first complete publication of the late composer and scholar Ruth Crawford Seeger's major work on American folksongs. It preserves them as well as demonstrates how they should be played so that they remain a living part of the American musical tradition.

'The Music of American Folk Song' and Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music - paperback
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
This is the first complete publication of the late composer and scholar Ruth Crawford Seeger's major work on American folksongs. It preserves them as well as demonstrates how they should be played so that they remain a living part of the American musical tradition.

Myroure of oure Ladye
Series: Early English Text Society Extra Series

Narrative Deconstructions of Gender in Works by Audrey Thomas, Daphne Marlatt, and Louise Erdrich
Series: European Studies in American Literature and Culture
Study of three North American women novelists combining the standpoints of gender studies and narratology.

Nunneries, Learning and Spirituality in Late Medieval English Society
Study of Dartford Priory reveals the Dominican contribution to late medieval English female monastic life and English vernacular spirituality.

Osborn Bokenham
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

The Paston Women: Selected Letters
Series: Library of Medieval Women
The Paston letters viewed in the context of medieval women's writing and medieval letter writing.

The Pastoral Care of Women in Late Medieval England
Series: Gender in the Middle Ages
A close examination of religious texts illuminates the way in which parish priests dealt with their female parishioners in the middle ages.

Patterns of Ambivalence
Series: Studies in English and American Literature and Culture
A study drawing from a wide range of disciplines - social history, psychoanalytic theory, and feminist philosophy as well as literary criticism - to construct the paradoxical world of Smith and her characters.

The Problem of Woman in Late-Medieval Hispanic Literature
Series: Monografías A
This book argues that the problem of gender identity is vital to the large corpus of medieval Hispanic texts that discuss the nature of women.

Queen Elizabeth's Englishings of Boethius, Plutarch and Horace
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Queene Elizabethes Achademy
Series: Early English Text Society Extra Series

Queens and Queenship in Medieval Europe
Image, status and function of queens and empresses, regnant and consort, studied from a variety of perspectives. [CP: regnant first]

Queens and Queenship in Medieval Europe - paperback
The image, status and function of queens and empresses, regnant and consort, in kingdoms stretching from England to Jerusalem in the European middle ages.

Queens, Regents and Potentates
Series: Women of Power

Queering the Canon
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
This work studies in detail a heretofore much neglected aned aspect of German literature.

Rape and Ravishment in the Literature of Medieval England
An exploration of the development of Middle English portrayals of rape and ravishment in the context of shifting legal, theological and medical attitudes.

The Receyt of the Ladie Kateryne L
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

The Rediscovered Writings of Veza Canetti
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
A fresh, nuanced view of Veza Canetti's literary career and its relationship to that of her famous husband.

Religious Life in Normandy, 1050-1300
Series: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion
`A vivid and absorbing picture both of the internal workings of religious houses in Normandy and their interactions with a wider society.' Professor ANN WILLIAMS

Representations of the Feminine in the Middle Ages
Series: Feminea Medievalia

Revelations of St Birgitta
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Romanticism and Gender
Series: Essays and Studies
New approaches to women writers and attitudes to women in the Romantic period, principally focused on North America.

Saint Bride and her Book
Series: Library of Medieval Women
A modern English version of the Middle English text of Birgitta's Revelations made at Birgittine Syon Abbey in England, in which the scribes extracted their favourite episodes from the longer Latin version.

Secretaries of God - paperback
A history of women prophets from medieval saints to radical Protestants.

Seinte Katerine
Series: Early English Text Society Supplementary Series

Seinte Marherete
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

T.H. White's Troubled Heart
An analysis of women in The Once and Future King.

Their Pavel
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Translation of nineteenth-century novel of life in a still-feudal Moravian village.

Their Pavel - paperback
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Translation of nineteenth-century novel of life in a still-feudal Moravian village.

Versions of Virginity in Late Medieval England
Medieval virginity theory explored through study of martyrs, nuns and Margery Kempe.

Victorian Women Poets
Series: Essays and Studies
Specially commissioned essays offer revisionary readings of canonical poets and bring into focus rediscovered writers.

The Vision of Christine de Pizan
Series: Library of Medieval Women
Translation of Christine's autobiographical Vision, both dealing with her own life and career, and offering a possible solution to the troubled state of France at the time.

The Visionary Life of Madre Ana de San Agustín
Series: Textos B
Madre Ana's account of her life gives insight into the nature of female monasticism at the turn of the seventeenth century.

Walking the Tightrope
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Feminist account of the chief writings of Therese Huber, the important 19th-c. German author.

When Men and Women Mattered
A study of changes in gender relations among the Owan people of Southern Nigeria over a period of five hundred years.

Women and Family Life in Early Modern German Literature
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
A study of the discourse of gender in 16th-century German popular literature.

Women and Mystical Experience in the Middle Ages - paperback
Original and thought-provoking study of three medieval women mystics based on writings and biographical material.

Women, Art and Patronage from Henry III to Edward III
Women as patrons of the arts: their social status, the sources of their wealth and their motives, together with an examination of the various artefacts which they commissioned.

Women and Death
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Identifies and analyzes thematizations of women and death from the past five centuries, illuminating the present and recent past.

Women and German Drama
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Explores the traditional bias against women's drama and asks to what extent women playwrights have been able to overcome it.

Women and the Law: Carmen de Burgos, an Early Feminist
Series: Monografías A
This study in the interdisciplinary field of law and literature analyses the representation of law in the work of twentieth-century Spanish writer Carmen de Burgos (1867-1932).

Women and Violent Crime in Enlightenment Scotland
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
A complete reappraisal of the scale and significance of female criminality in a period of major legislative changes.

Women and Writing in the Works of Novalis
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
A balanced study of gender in Novalis as expressed in his literary, political, and scientific writings and in his letters.

Women, Crusading and the Holy Land in Historical Narrative
Series: Warfare in History
Women's role in crusades and crusading examined through a close investigation of the narratives in which they appear.

Women in Business, 1700-1850
A reappraisal of the business enterprises of women in the `long' eighteenth century, showing them to be more flourishing than previously thought.

Women in a Medieval Heretical Sect
Women Waldensians have been almost written out of studies of the heretical sect, but are here shown to have played a full role within it, regardless of gender.

Women in Thirteenth-Century Lincolnshire
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
A detailed investigation of the place of women in thirteenth-century society, using individual case studies to reappraise orthodox opinion.

Women in Weimar Fashion
Series: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual
New view of the crucial role of fashion discourse and practice in Weimar Germany and its significance for women.

Women of Letters
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Nineteenth-century German women authors explore and extend the genre of books-written-as-letters.

Women of the Gilte Legende
Series: Library of Medieval Women
The first modern translation of one of the most influential books to come from the middle ages.

Women Peasant Poets in Eighteenth-Century England, Scotland, and Germany
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
First comparative study of an unlikely group of authors: 18th-century women peasants.

Women, Reform and Community in Early Modern England
Series: Studies in Modern British Religious History
A study of one of the most influential women of her day has much to reveal about the developments which shaped the English Reformation.

Women Saints' Lives in Old English Prose - paperback
Series: Library of Medieval Women
Translations of eight saints' lives, giving an insight into women's religious culture in Anglo-Saxon England.

Women Television Producers
Interviews and discussions with a representative group of female television producers, looking at how each of them entered the business, how they advanced, and what obstacles they encountered and overcame.

Women, the Book, and the Godly Selected Proceedings of the St Hilda's Conference, 1993
Papers on women and religion in the middle ages, drawn from archive, manuscipt and early printed sources.

Women, the Book, and the Worldly
Studies of women's roles in the secular literary world, as patrons, authors, readers, and characters in secular literature.

Women, Work and Wages in England, 1600-1850
Women's employment was significant both for its contribution to industrialisation and to family economies; its range and the rewards are explored.

Women's Bodies and Dangerous Trades in England, 1880-1914
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
Legislation to protect women is explored in the context of contemporary ideas on women's work, popular journalism and the advance of scientific knowledge.

The World of Eleanor of Aquitaine
A revisionist approach to Eleanor of Aquitaine and the political, social, cultural and religious world in which she lived.

Writing Gender and Genre in Medieval Literature
Series: Essays and Studies
Medievalists demonstrate how a focus on gender can transform an approach to literary texts and genres.

The Writings of Margaret of Oingt - paperback
Series: Library of Medieval Women

The Writings of Teresa de Cartagena - paperback
Series: Library of Medieval Women
Translation, with full explanatory notes, of the two works of Teresa de Cartagena, the fifteenth-century Spanish nun.