Other Women's Voices

On Other Women's Voices, you will find an introduction to over 125 women who wrote a substantial amount before 1700 and whose work (or at least a good part of it) has been translated into modern English. All but three entries are on women who wrote in languages other than English; those three are on women who wrote in the English of the 1300s and 1400s. Almost all of the entries are on individuals; a few are on more than one woman.

The site's goal is to get you to want to read all that is available in translation (or in the original if you can) of these women's writing. Why all? You need to read the whole work in order to hear the writer's full voice. Anthologies are admirable, but in reading them you eavesdrop on a small part of a conversation; you need to go to the whole to hear the writer's full conversation with her world.