A number of social and ideological features became prevalent in the European transition from eighteenth to nineteenth century – the establishment...
The lustre of the Victorian feminine ideal wore off. Owing to the new civil rights that had been accorded to women, along with their growing...
The number and quality of treatises discussing women’s talents or lack there of was high sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe. The works were...
The nineteenth century was the century of reading, and from the outset women – as readers and writers – captured a large part of the rapidly...
In the seventeenth century, les précieuses formed their own salons in protest against the vulgarity of the court of Henri IV. These...
Madame de Sévigné turned the epistolary genre into a women’s genre, not in the sense that it was mostly populated by women, but because the women...
Professor J. S. Sneedorff highlighted the Danish translation of German author Margaretha Klopstock's Briefe von Verstorbenen an Lebendige...
Queen Christina was the reigning queen of Sweden between 1644 and 1654. Her reign ended when she abdicated, after which she converted to...
“Gynaeceum” is Greek and means 'women’s chamber'. In the Renaissance the word was used as a genre designation for a literary historical category:...
The view taken by the Christian Church of women who wrote on holy matters, evangelised, preached, prophesised or in other ways acted as God’s...
Whereas Mary Wollstonecraft was a radical Romanticist in her writing as well as in her life, the Nordic female authors found it more difficult to...
Witch persecutions were institutionalised with the papal bull and the later renowned Malleus Maleficarum (The Hammer of Witches),...
