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1600s

La nobiltà et l'eccellenza delle donne, co' diffetti et mancamenti de gli huomini

Lucrezia Marinella — philosopher

La nobiltà et l'eccellenza delle donne, co' diffetti et mancamenti de gli huomini

Amorosa speranza: fauola pastorale

Valeria Miani Negri — dramatist and poet

Amorosa speranza: fauola pastorale

Parthenicôn Elisabethae Ioannae Westoniae, virginis nobilissimae, poëtriae florentissimae, linguarum plurimarum peritissimae

Elizabetha Johanna Westonia — poet

Parthenicôn Elisabethae Ioannae Westoniae, virginis nobilissimae, poëtriae florentissimae, linguarum plurimarum peritissimae

Lettere d'Isabella Andreini Padouana

Isabella Andreini — writer and actor

Lettere d'Isabella Andreini Padouana

An Apologie for Women, or, An Opposition to Mr. Dr. G. His Assertion: Who Held in the Act at Oxforde, anno 1608, That It Was Lawfull for Husbands to Beate Their Wiues

Condemning wife beating

An Apologie for Women, or, An Opposition to Mr. Dr. G. His Assertion: Who Held in the Act at Oxforde, anno 1608, That It Was Lawfull for Husbands to Beate Their Wiues

Zodiacus Christianus, seu, Signa 12 diuinae praedestinationis vnà cum 12 symbolis quibus signa illa adumbrantur

Anna Berg — printer

Zodiacus Christianus, seu, Signa 12 diuinae praedestinationis vnà cum 12 symbolis quibus signa illa adumbrantur

Corona delle nobili et virtuose donne. Fatti da Lugretia Romana

Isabetta Alberti — artist

Corona delle nobili et virtuose donne. Fatti da Lugretia Romana

[Suite de quinze estampes représentant des oiseaux]

Marie Briot — engraver

[Suite de quinze estampes représentant des oiseaux]

Letter to Cassiano dal Pozzo

Artemisia Gentileschi — artist

Letter to Cassiano dal Pozzo

Alphabet de l'imperfection et malice des femmes: reueu, corrigé, & augmenté d'vn friant Dessert, & de plusieurs histoires en cette cinquiesme edition pour les courtizans & partisans de la femme Mondaine

The qualities of women

Alphabet de l'imperfection et malice des femmes: reueu, corrigé, & augmenté d'vn friant Dessert, & de plusieurs histoires en cette cinquiesme edition pour les courtizans & partisans de la femme Mondaine

The lavves resolutions of womens rights, or, The lavves prouision for woemen: a methodicall collection of such statutes and customes, with the cases, opinions, arguments and points of learning in the lavv, as doe properly concerne women: together with a compendious table, whereby the chiefe matters in this booke contained, may be the more readily found

Women and the law

The lavves resolutions of womens rights, or, The lavves prouision for woemen: a methodicall collection of such statutes and customes, with the cases, opinions, arguments and points of learning in the lavv, as doe properly concerne women: together with a compendious table, whereby the chiefe matters in this booke contained, may be the more readily found

Haec homo: wherein the excellency of the creation of woman is described, by way of an essay

Vitruvian woman

Haec homo: wherein the excellency of the creation of woman is described, by way of an essay

Flora, ouero, Cultura di fiori

Anna Maria Vaiani — artist and engraver

Flora, ouero, Cultura di fiori

Lo Stipo

Margherita Costa — writer and performer

Observations diuerses, sur la sterilité, perte de fruict, foecondite, accouchements, et maladies des femmes, et enfants nouueaux naiz

Louise Bourgeois Boursier — midwife

Observations diuerses, sur la sterilité, perte de fruict, foecondite, accouchements, et maladies des femmes, et enfants nouueaux naiz

Les femmes illustres, ou, Les harangues heroïques

Madeleine de Scudéry — philosopher and feminist

Les femmes illustres, ou, Les harangues heroïques

Manuscript memorandum book

Haulsey Family — embroiderers

Manuscript memorandum book

The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America

Anne Bradstreet — poet

The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America

The marrow of history, or, The pilgrimage of kings and princes: truly representing the variety of dangers inhaerent to their crowns, and the lamentable deaths which many of them, and some of the best of them, have undergone: collected, not onely out of the best modern histories, but from all those which have been most famous in the Latine, Greek, or in the Hebrew tongue: shewing, not onely the tragedies of princes at their deaths, but their exploits and sayings in their lives, and by what virtues some of them have flourished in the height of honour, and overcome by what affections, others of them have sunk into the depth of all calamities: a work most delightfull for knowledge, and as profitable for example

Elizabeth Alsop — printer and bookseller

The marrow of history, or, The pilgrimage of kings and princes: truly representing the variety of dangers inhaerent to their crowns, and the lamentable deaths which many of them, and some of the best of them, have undergone: collected, not onely out of the best modern histories, but from all those which have been most famous in the Latine, Greek, or in the Hebrew tongue: shewing, not onely the tragedies of princes at their deaths, but their exploits and sayings in their lives, and by what virtues some of them have flourished in the height of honour, and overcome by what affections, others of them have sunk into the depth of all calamities: a work most delightfull for knowledge, and as profitable for example

Lyon dans son lustre

Claudine Brunand — artist and engraver

Lyon dans son lustre

Aana Macallame

Aana Macallame — bearded woman

Books Printed at London, and are to be Sold by Elizabeth Hutchinson in Durham

Elizabeth Hutchinson — bookseller

Books Printed at London, and are to be Sold by Elizabeth Hutchinson in Durham

Villa Benedetta

Plautilla Bricci — architect

Villa Benedetta

Heures nouuelles dédiées a Monseigneur Dauphin, ecrites et grauées par Elisabeth Senault

Elizabeth Senault — calligrapher and engraver

Heures nouuelles dédiées a Monseigneur Dauphin, ecrites et grauées par Elisabeth Senault

Neues Modelbuch

Rosina Helena Fürst — artist and engraver

Neues Modelbuch

The Christians Pattern, or, A Divine Treatise of the Imitation of Christ

Elizabeth Redmayne — printer

The Christians Pattern, or, A Divine Treatise of the Imitation of Christ

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February 28, 2019 – June 15, 2019
Duke University Libraries

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December 11, 2019 – February 8, 2020
Grolier Club, New York City

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