The complaint of Catherine Morland in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, that history has 'hardly any women at all' is not an uncommon one. Yet there is evidence t

The complaint of Catherine Morland in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, that history has 'hardly any women at all' is not an uncommon one. Yet there is evidence t

This volume was the first historical introduction to women's writing in France from the sixth century to the present day. Specially-commissioned essays by leadi

In this informative and lively volume, Margaret L. King synthesizes a large body of literature on the condition of western European women in the Renaissance cen