Women Latinists Throughout History

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Abigail Allyn

Agatha Wiseman

Alessandra Scala

Alethea Stiles Marcy

Allington, Mrs.

Angela de Fulgino

Angela Nogarola

Anne Bacon

Anna Elizabeth Buma

Anna Christina Ehrenfried

Anne Dacier

Anne Ley

Anne Lock

Anne Margrethe Bredal

Anne Margrethe Pfeffer née Specht

Anne Margrethe Qvitzow

Anna Maria Arduinoª

Anna Maria van Schurmanª

Annamaria Holborn Bettman

Anna Memorataª

Anna Owena Hoyers

Anna Elisa Radke

Anna Resta Barrile

Anna Schwarzerdt/Cromer/Sabini

Anna Susia/Suys

Anna Valentini

Anna von Buchwald

Anna von Pallant

Anna von Utenhove

Antoinette des Houliéres

Antoinette de Loynes 

Antonia Bourignon

Antonia Confienzi

Atilia Onesima

Bathsua Makinª

Battista di Montefeltro Malatesta

Beatrice Calvo Salonia

Beatriz Galindo*

Bethany Abelseth

Bridget More

Bridget of Sweden

Camille de Morelª

Candida Xu/Hsu

Carlotta Patino

Cassandra Colleoni

Cassandra Fedele

Catalina de Badajoz

Catarina Borghina

Catarina Imperialisª

Catharina Quirinin

Catarina Ursula Hessen-Kassel

Catherine of Aragon

Queen Christina of Swedenª

Christina Roccati

Cille Gadª

Clara Lanzavegia

Cornelia Adrichomiaª

Constantia Grierson

Costanza Varano

Cynthia Dunbar

Diane de Morel

Dhouda

Doña Marcelina

Dorothea Christina Erxlebia née Leporina

Egeria

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Eleanor Burnell

(H)Elena Coppoli

Elena Dolfin

Elena Piscopia

Elinor Hawkshaw

Elisabet Winkler (Weigler)

Elizabeth Carter

Elizabeth Elstob

Elisabetta Fiorini-Mazzanti

Elizabeth Albertina von Kammeneck

Elizabeth Cooke Hoby Russell

Elizabeth Dacreª

Elizabeth Hickman du Bois

Elizabeth (Koopman) Heveliusª

Elizabeth Jane Westonª

Elizabeth Koolaart

Queen Elizabeth I

Elisabeth Thiel

Elizabeth Tollett

Elisabeth Vorrenhagen

Elsa Maria Gossmann

Emmie McVea

Enrica Diogini

Ersilia Spolverini

Eucheria

Europa Fontana

Eva Heinrich Sachs

Eva Johnston

Falamisca de Monti

Febronia Pannolini

Francesca Caccini

Fulda

Gabriella Patino

Genevieve Imme-Metais

Georgette de Montenay

Gertrud Paffrath

Ginevra Nogarola

Ginevra Ragnoneª

Gironda Cellini

Grace Thompson

Gracia Hosokawa

Helen M. Chesnutt

Helen Thoreau

Helena Sibylla Wagenseil

Heloïse

Helpis

Henrietta Catharina von Friesin

Herrad von Landsberg

Hildegard von Bingen

Hippolyta Taurella

Hrosvita of Gandersheim

Hyleke Gockinga

Ida Blum Naumann

Ingeborg of Denmark

Ippolita Sforza

Isabel Delgada

Isotta Nogarola

Jacoba Busken Huet

Jane Owen

Jane Seymour

Jean Holzworth

Johanna Othoª

Juliana Nagy

Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruzª

Katarina Sobotta

Laura Bassi

Laura Cereta

Leobgitha

Lisa Hamburg

Lorenza Strozziª

Louisa Reinhard

Luise Robbert

Lucia Bojarda

Lucille Kohn

Lucinda Pearl Boggs

Lucrezia Bembo

Ludovica Koettgen

Luisa Sigea

Madalena Casulana

Madame de Staël

Maddalena Manfredi

Maddalena Scrovegni

Magdalena Brigitta Wasenthau

Magdalena Morteska

Margarita Bockin von Guttmannsdorff

Margaret Cole

Margaret Fuller

Margherita van Godewijkª

Margarita Sarrocchi

Margarita Velseria

Marguerite D'Oignt

Maria Aurora Bragadin

Maria Barbansona

Maria Caietana de Agnesi

Maria Cunitz

Maria Dalle-Donne

Maria Electa Faletra

Maria Goetz

Maria Elisabeth Ringsª

Maria Petzold

Maria Sibylla Merian

Martha Horneffer

Martha Marchinaª

Martha Whittier Olivenbaum

Mary Benn

Mary (Mollineux) Southworth

Mary Norton

Mary Queen of Scots

Mary Ward

Mathilda Christiana Maria Apelt

Mechtild von Magdeburg

Natalie Häpke

Nazik Al-Malaika

Nellie Price Rosebaugh

Olympia Morataª

Olympia Frontina Germana

Perpetuaª

Philippa Lazeaª

Phillis Wheatley*

Proba

Rachel Jevon

M. Roquemontrose

Rosina (Posthuis) Brosamerus 

Saint Perpetua

Sarah Alden Ripley

Sarah Staples

Sibylla Ursula von Braunschweig-Lüneburg

Silvestra Sopranini

Zofia Corbiniana-Bernitzowa

Sophia Elizabeth (Brenner) Webber

Stefana Michaelona

Sulpicia

Susanna Helena Ballou

Susanna Le Maitre

Tarquinia Molza

Taurina

Teresa Manfredi

Trotula

Ursula Krüger

Valeria Fuscilla

Veronica Gambara

Vittoria Aleotti

Wendela Skytte

Willetrudis

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*None of her Latin has made its way down to us

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Unattributed:

Funerary Inscriptions

Pompeiian Graffiti

Vindolanda Fragments

Anonymous Hymns
Anonymous Scribes

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My translations:

Ginevra Ragnoneª

Iohanna Othoª

Maria Elisabeth Ringsª

Martha Marchinaª

Olympia Morataª