Introduction: toward a new conception of women's literary history / Anke Gilleir and Alicia C. Montoya
'To promote God's praise and her neighbour's salvation'. Strategies of authorship and readership among mystic women in the later Middle Ages / Madeleine Jeay and Kathleen Garay
Gendering place: the role of place in Anne Krabbe's Ballad works / Anne-Marie Mai
'To make frequent assemblies, associations, and combinations amongst our sex.' Nascent ideas of female bonding in seventeenth-century England / Ina Schabert
Women and literary sociability in eighteenth-century Lisbon / Vanda Anástacio
Female writing and the use of literary byways. Pastoral drama by Maddalena Campiglia (1553-1595) / Philiep Bossier
Prescriptions for women: alchemy, medicine and the renaissance Querelle des femmes / Meredith K. Ray
The appropriation of the genre of nuptial poetry by Katharina Lescailje (1649-1711) / Nina Geerdink
Madame De Maintenon Au Miroir de sa correspondance: réhabilitation du personnage et redécouverte d'une écriture féminine / Christine Mongenot and Hans Bots
French women writers and heroic genres / Perry Gethner
The tartar girl, the Persian princess, and early modern English women's authorship from Elizabeth II to to Mary Wroth / Bernadette Andrea
A cloistered nun abroad: Arcangela Tarabotti's international literary career / Lara Lynn Westwater
Traveller, pedagogue and cultural mediator: Marie-Elisabeth De La Fite and her female context / Ineke Janse
Translation and intellectual reflection in the works of enlightened Spanish women: Inés Joyes (1731-1808) / Mónica Bolufer
'Nous voudrions que les femmes s'occupent de la littérature': traductions des romanciéres françaises en russie autour de 1800 / Elena Gretchanaia.