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Collection: Fifty Women
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ACZ7097
These eight essays offered advice on virtuous behavior, proper conversation, true and false meekness, envy, sentimentality, education, and religion.
ADJ9921
The publishers of the exhibited compilation of biographies of the women of the Bible took the highly unusual step of advertising Stowe's authorship in prominent gilded lettering on the cover of the book - a common practice today in the marketing of…
AER4308
A chivalric romance based on Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1534). Written by famous poet and writer Laura Terracina.
AER4418
A heroic poem on the theme of the biblical King David. Dedicated to Maria Maddalena de' Medici, the Archduchess of Austria and Grand Duchess of Tuscany, the poem also included flattering allusions to contemporary Florentine nobles.
AFH9023
This biography presents Suor Domenica da Paradiso as a model for monastic behavior in order to promote her case for saintly canonization. The book's engraved frontispiece offers a lively (albeit imaginary) portrayal of this monastic founder and…
AFM4742
This is one of six Latin morality plays modeled on the comedies of Terence, emphasized the virtues of chastity and faith, which made them far more suitable reading material for the nuns than Terence's pagan dramas. Edited by Celtis, this first…
AFW8257
This 1523 Book of Hours, printed on vellum, was one of Yolande Bonhomme's earliest independent productions.
BRA0104/A
Memoir about Mary Barritt Taft, an outstanding woman evangelist and joined her brother's preaching circuit, Dover, when she was seventeen. This work is bound with ten other Methodist tracts.
BRA0373
One of the few laypersons to publish polemical works during the early years of the Protestant Reformation, Argula von Grumbach went on to publish eight pamphlets, including this letter in which she admonished all believers to fulfill their duty as…
BRA0582
Born in West Africa, the author of these poems was brought to America aboard the slave ship Phillis at the age of seven or eight. She was taught the rudiments of English by the Wheatley children and eventually began to compose poetry. This was the…
BRA0808
This portable 1551 edition of the Latin Bible was one of Yolande Bonhomme's later publications. Again she utilized her husband's "unicorn" trademark to signal the continuity of his press.
BRA0822
Written by Harriett Beecher Stowe after a vision while taking communion, Uncle Tom's Cabin was an immediate success and was a major step forward for race relations and human rights.
BRA0862
French and Latin Book of Hours printed with engraved plates to reproduce the rich ornamentation of illuminated manuscript prayer books. This work was created by Elizabeth Senault, trained as a calligrapher and engraver by her father, Louis Senault.
BRA1394
The first edition of Middlemarch, originally published serially in eight parts and here bound into two massive volumes. This epic novel centers on the lives of the unhappily married Dorothea Brookes, an idealistic and charitable young woman, and…
BRA1654
One of More's "Cheap Repository Tracts," the facetious title momentarily conceals More's effort to discourage London's poor from risking their money in games of chance. The moralizing text tells the story of one John Brown, who after playing the…
BRA2051
Publication by Joachim von der Heiden urging Katharina von Bora to repent and return to her monastic seclusion. This came after she escaped from her convent in 1523 and married Martin Luther in 1525.
BRA2052
Johann Hasenberg attacked Katharina von Bora in this publication addressed to Martin Luther. Included are woodcuts that depict Martin Luther and his wife proceeding to the gates of hell.
BRA2124
This 1612 biography of Jeanne d'Arc was compiled by Jean Hordal, a descendant of her brother. Although this work exaggerates Jeanne's military heroics, the engraved title page accurately reproduces the design of the civic monument that was erected in…
BRA2125
This volume contains the collected Hebrew, Latin, Greek, and French writings of Anna Maria van Schurman, who is believed to be the first woman enrolled as a student in a European university.
BRA2195
Suor Isabella Piccini engraved this portrayal of St. Teresa of Ávila in 1720, when the plate was used as the frontispiece for the first edition of the saint’s “Spiritual Advice.”
BRA2225
Biography about Susan B. Anthony that includes public addresses and letters.
BRA2832
America's first secular cantata. Crosby wrote the libretto to music composed for female voices by George F. Root, an instructor at the New York Institution for the Blind who later attained fame for his Civil War songs. The success from this work…
BRA2834
United States government publication marking the dedication of a statue of Willard in the nation's Capitol Building in 1905.
BRB0078
This commentary on St. Teresa's "seven dwelling places" from The Interior Castle is illustrated with fifteen allegorical engravings. The first of these images portrays St. Teresa and the seven dwelling places: the lowest room is where the sinner…
BRB0114
One of 25 pamphlets bound together in this Sammelband. This letter was written by the first published female Protestant author in protest of the arrest of a Lutheran student at the University of Ingolstadt.
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