Women in the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries: Representative Works
WOMEN IN THE 16TH, 17TH, AND 18TH CENTURIES: REPRESENTATIVE WORKS
Marie Jean Antoine
On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship (essay) 1790
Elizabeth Ashbridge
Some Account of the Fore-Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge (autobiography) 1774
St. Teresa de Avila
El libro de su vida [The Life of the Mother Teresa of Jesus] 1562
El libra de las fundaciones de Santa Teresa de Jesús [The Book of the Foundations] 1576
El castillo interior, o las moradas [The Interior Castle; or, The Mansions] 1577
A Serious Proposal to the Ladies for the Advancement of Their True and Greatest Interest. By a Lover of Her Sex (essay) 1694
A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Part II. Wherin a Method is Offer'd for the Improvement of Their Minds (essay) 1697
Oroonoko; Or, The Royal Slave. A True History (novel) 1688
The Lady's Looking-Glass, to dress herself by; or, The Whole Art of Charming (novel) 1697
Anne Bradstreet
The Tenth Muse (poetry) 1650
Margaret Cavendish
CCXI Sociable Letters (correspondence) 1664
"On the Education of Women" (essay) 1719
The Public Speaking of Queen Elizabeth: Selections from Her Official Addresses (addresses) 1951
Mary Evelyn
Mundus Muliebris: Or, the Ladies Dressing-Room Unlock'd, and her Toilette Spread (prose poem) 1690
Cassandra Fedele
Letters and Orations [edited and translated by Diana Robin] (letters and speeches) 2000
James Fordyce
Sermons to a Young Woman (handbook) 1766
Mary Hays
Letters and Essays, Moral and Miscellaneous [with Elizabeth Hays] (letters and essays) 1793
Memoirs of Emma Courtney 2 vols. (novel) 1796
Appeal to the Men of Great Britain on the Behalf of the Ladies (essay) 1798
Female Biography: or Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of All Ages and Countries (biographies) 1803
Eliza Haywood
The Female Spectator. 4 vols. (periodical) 1744-46
Charlotte Lennox
The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella. 2 vols. (novel) 1752
The Lady's Museum [editor] (essays, prose, poetry) 1760-61
Bathusa Makin
An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentle-women (essay) 1673
* Letters of the Right Honorable Lady M—y W—y M—e: Written, during her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, To Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, & c. in Different Parts of Europe. 3 vols. (letters) 1763
Marguerite de Navarre
L'Heptaméron des Nouvelles [Heptameron] (novellas) 1559
Modesta Pozzo (Moderata Fonte)
Il Merito delle donne (novel) 1600; translated as The Worth of Women, 1997
Anne Radcliffe
The Female Advocate; or, An Attempt to Recover the Rights of Women from Male Usurpation (essay) 1799
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Lettres de deux amans, habitans d'une petite ville au pied des Alpes. 6 vols.; also published as La Nouvelle Héloïse (novel) 1761
Du contrat social [The Social Contract] (essay) 1762
Émile, ou l'education. 4 vols. (novel) 1762
Mary Rowlandson
The Soveraignty & Goodness of God, Together with the Faithfulness of His Promises Displayed; Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, Commended by her to all that Desire to Know the Lord's Doings to, and Dealings with Her. Especially to her Dear Children and Relations. [republished as A True History of the Captivity & Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, A Minister's Wife in New-England: Wherein is set forth, The Cruel and Inhumane Usage she underwent amongst the Heathens for Eleven Weeks time: And her Deliverance from them. Written by her own Hand, for her Private Use: and now made public at the earnest Desire of some Friends, for the Benefit of the Afflicted, 1682] (autobiography) 1682
George Savile, Marquis of Halifax
The Lady's New Year's Gift; or, Advice to a Daughter (handbook) 1688
Comedy of Errors (play) 1592-94
Romeo and Juliet (play) 1595-96
Twelfth Night (play) 1601-02
Anne Wheathill
A Handfull of Holesome (though Homelie) Hearbs (devotions) 1584
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (poetry) 1773
Thoughts on the Education of Daughters: With Reflections on Female Conduct, in the More Important Duties of Life (essay) 1787
The Female Reader; or, Miscellaneous-Pieces, in Prose and Verse, Selected from the Best Writers, and Disposed Under Proper Heads; for the Improvement of Young Women [editor] (poetry and essays) 1789
A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France (essay) 1790
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (essay) 1792
Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman: A Posthumous Fragment (unfinished novel) 1799
* This work is commonly referred to as Turkish Embassy
Letters.