Contents -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on the Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Toward a New Conception of Women's Literary History -- Female Spaces, Female Communities -- 'To Promote God's Praise and her Neighbour's Salvation'. Strategies of Authorship and Readership among Mystic Women in the Later Middle Ages -- Gendering Place: The Role of Place in Anne Krabbe's Ballad Works -- 'To Make Frequent Assemblies, Associations, and Combinations amongst our Sex'. Nascent Ideas of Female Bonding in Seventeenth-Century England -- Women and Literary Sociability in Eighteenth-Century Lisbon -- Female Writing and the Use of Literary Byways. Pastoral Drama by Maddalena Campiglia (1553-1595) -- Prescriptions for Women: Alchemy, Medicine and the Renaissance Querelle des Femmes -- The Appropriation of the Genre of Nuptial Poetry by Katharina Lescailje (1649-1711) -- Madame de Maintenon au miroir de sa correspondance: réhabilitation du personnage et redécouverte d'une écriture féminine -- French Women Writers and Heroic Genres -- Transnational Perspectives -- The Tartar Girl, The Persian Princess, and Early Modern English Women's Authorship from Elizabeth I to Mary Wroth -- A Cloistered Nun Abroad: Arcangela Tarabotti's International Literary Career -- Traveller, Pedagogue and Cultural Mediator: Marie-Elisabeth de La Fite and her Female Context -- Translation and Intellectual Reflection in the Works of Enlightened Spanish Women: Inés Joyes (1731-1808) -- 'Nous voudrions que les femmes s'occupent de la littérature': Traductions des romancières françaises en Russie autour de 1800 -- Index Nominum.