Skye Shirley
Latinist
Women Latinists Throughout History
Work in Progress: Check back for new authors! The following list includes women who wrote in Latin; the list of women who studied Latin is far longer.
Recordings of some of these texts are on my SoundCloud here. If a recording is available, it is marked with an ª for "audio."
Abigail Allyn
Alda Lonata Torelli
Alessandra Scala
Alice Robinson Boise Wood
Angela Ardinghelli
Angela Sigea
Anne Bacon
Anna Elizabeth Buma
Anna Christina Ehrenfried von Balthasar
Anne Ley/Leys (Norman)
Anne Lock
Anne Margrethe Pfeffer née Specht
Anna Maria Arduinoª
Annamaria Holborn Bettman
Anna Elisa Radke
Anna Resta Barrile
Anna Schwarzerdt/Cromer/Sabini
Anna Valentini
Antoinette des Houliéres
Arbella Stuart
Augusta Webster
Aurora Liljenroth
Bathsua Makinª
Battista di Montefeltro Malatesta
Beatrice I of Burgundy
Beatriz Galindo*
Bethany Abelseth
Bianca Dolfin
Bridget More
Camilla Valenti dal Verme
Candida Xu/Hsu
Catalina de Badajoz
Caterina Vegri
Catherina Landa
Catherine of Aragon
Catherine Burr
Catherine II of Russia
Charlotte Guillard
Charlotte Hawkins Brown
Claude-Catherine de Clermont
Cornelia Zambeccari
Constantia Grierson
Cynthia Dunbar
Domitilla Trivulzi (Torelli)
Doña Marcelina
Dorothea Christina Erxlebia née Leporina
Eleonore Magdalene of Neuberg (Habsburg)
Elena Dolfin
Elena Piscopia
Elinor Hawkshaw
Elizabeth Elstob
Elizabeth Albertina von Kammeneck
Elizabeth Grymeston
Elizabeth Koolaart
Elisabeth Thiel
Elisabeth Vorrenhagen
Elizabeth Withypoll Lucar
Elsa Maria Gossmann
Emmie McVea
Europa Fontana
Felice Rasponi
Francesca Caccini
Francisca Irene de Navia y Orsorio
Fulda
Gabriela Marcello
Genevieve Imme-Metais
Gertrud Paffrath
Grace Thompson
Grazia Contarini
Gracia Hosokawa
Helen Keyser Bachrach
Helen Thoreau
Henrietta Catharina von Friesin
Herrad von Landsberg
Hyleke Gockinga
Ida Blum Naumann
Ippolita Sforza
Isabella De Josa
Isabel Delgada
Isabella Losa
Jacoba Busken Huet
Jean Holzworth
Joanna Blanchetta/Bianchetti
Joanna Paz
Juliana Nagy
Lisa Hamburg
Louisa Reinhard
Luise Robbert
Lucia Bojarda
Lucille Kohn
Lucinda Pearl Boggs
Ludovica Koettgen
Luigia Anastasia Serment
Madalena Casulana
Madame de Staël
Maddalena Manfredi
Maddalena Scrovegni
Madeleine de L'Aubépine
Madeleine de Scudery
Magdalena Morteska
Margarita Bockin von Guttmannsdorff
Margaret Clement
Margaret Cole
Margaret Fuller
Margareta Geertruida Frouwina Renkema
Margaret Roper
Margareta Susanna Sprögel
Marguerite von Staffel (von Allendorf)
Marguerite D'Oignt
Maria Aurora Bragadin
Maria Bardi
Maria Serafina Bragadino
Maria Dalle-Donne
Maria Electa Faletra
Maria Goetz
Maria Diana Grimani
Maria Portia Vigoli/Vigliela
Maria Theresia de Retz
Martha Horneffer
Mary Ward
Mathilda Christiana Maria Apelt
Mechtild von Magdeburg
Natalie Häpke
Nazik Al-Malaika
Novella Andrea
Petronilla Paolini Massimi
St. Radegunde
Regina Silvestrina
Richlindis
Sarah Alden Ripley
Sibille de la Porte
Sibylla Ursula von Braunschweig-Lüneburg
Sophie Anna von Bernitz
Sophia Elizabeth (Brenner) Webber
Stefana Michaelona
Susanna Helena Ballou
Terentia
Teresa Manfredi
Theophanu
Trotula
Uta of Niedermünster
Vittoria Aleotti
Wendela/Vendela Skytte
Willetrudis
Winstrup
Widow of Thomas Erpinii
*None of her Latin has made its way down to us
Unattributed:
Funerary Inscriptions
Pompeiian Graffiti
Vindolanda Fragments
Anonymous Hymns
Anonymous Scribes
My translations:
SPOKEN LATINISTS
Giovanna Chirri
Iby Knill
Liliana Segre
