Pre-1800 Women Writers Meme
Okay, I'm picking up the torch!! This started with Bardiac and went to Dr. Virago - I continue from Dr. Virago as well as La Lecturess and Amanda...
My own are added at the bottom (after the ***):
The (draft) REALLY DEAD WOMEN WRITERS meme.
Behn, Aphra - Oroonoko
Christine de Pisan (aka Pizan) - The Book of the City of Ladies
Julian of Norwich - Revelations of Divine Love
Locke, Anne (aka Ane Lok, etc) - A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner
Marie de France - The Lais of Marie de France
The Paston Women - The Paston Letters
Margery Kempe - The Book of Margery Kempe
Anonymous - The Floure and the Leafe
(Dr. V explains, "I am convinced the writer was a women. Unless you can name a medieval dream vision where the dreamer was not a persona of the author -- and therefore the same gender -- I stand by my convinction.")
Lady Mary Wroth - Poems
Anne Askew - The Examinations of Anne Askew
Mary Sidney - Psalms
Anne Finch - Poems
Katherine Phillips - Poems
Teresa of Avila - Life
Lanyer, Aemilia - Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Fama y obras póstumas
Anne Bradstreet - Collected Poems
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Trotula - The Diseases of Women
Female Troubador Poets:
- La Comtessa de Dia - "A chantar m'er" & other Trobairitz poetry excerpted.
Hrostvitha of Gandersheim (c.930-c.1002) - Plays Gallicanus & Dulcitius
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2 Comments:
Yay! Somebody remebered Hrotswitha!
Hi Medieval Woman,
Thanks for contributing to the meme! I'm trying to put things together to post a fuller version in the next couple of days.
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