Women Latinists Throughout History

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Abigail Allyn

Alessandra Scala

Alethea Stiles Marcy

Allington, Mrs.

Angela de Fulgino

Angela Nogarola

Anne Bacon

Anna Elizabeth Buma

Anna Christina Ehrenfried

Anne Lock

Anne Margrethe Bredal

Anne Margrethe Qvitzow

Anna Maria Arduinoª

Anna Maria van Schurmanª

Anna Memorataª

Anna Owena Hoyers

Anna Valentini

Anna von Buchwald

Anna von Pallant

Anna von Utenhove

Antoinette de Loynes 

Antonia Bourignon

Antonia Confienzi

Atilia Onesima

Bathsua Makinª

Beatrice Calvo Salonia

Beatriz Galindo*

Bethany Abelseth

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

Cille Gadª

Clara Lanzavegia

Cornelia Adrichomiaª

Costanza Varano

Cynthia Dunbar

Diane de Morel

Dhouda

Doña Marcelina

Egeria

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Eleanor Burnell

(H)Elena Coppoli

Elena Dolfin

Elena Piscopia

Elisabet Winkler (Weigler)

Elizabeth Carter

Elisabetta Fiorini-Mazzanti

Elizabeth Albertina von Kammeneck

Elizabeth Cooke Hoby Russell

Elizabeth Dacreª

Elizabeth (Koopman) Heveliusª

Elizabeth Jane Westonª

Elizabeth Koolaart

Queen Elizabeth I

Elizabeth Tollett

Emmie McVea

Enrica Diogini

Ersilia Spolverini

Eucheria

Europa Fontana

Falamisca de Monti

Febronia Pannolini

Francesca Caccini

Fulda

Gabriella Patino

Georgette de Montenay

Gertrud Paffrath

Ginevra Nogarola

Ginevra Ragnoneª

Gironda Cellini

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

Ingeborg of Denmark

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

Lorenza Strozziª

Lucia Bojarda

Lucrezia Bembo

Luisa Sigea

Madalena Casulana

Maddalena Manfredi

Magdalena Brigitta Wasenthau

Magdalena Morteska

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 Elisabeth Ringsª

Maria Petzold

Maria Sibylla Merian

Martha Marchinaª

Martha Whittier Olivenbaum

Mary (Mollineux) Southworth

Mary Norton

Mary Queen of Scots

Mechtild von Magdeburg

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

Zofia Corbiniana-Bernitzowa

Sophia Elizabeth (Brenner) Webber

Stefana Michaelona

Sulpicia

Susanna Le Maitre

Tarquinia Molza

Taurina

Teresa Manfredi

Ursula Krüger

Valeria Fuscilla

Veronica Gambara

Vittoria Aleotti

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

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My translations:

Ginevra Ragnoneª

Iohanna Otho

Maria Elisabeth Ringsª

Martha Marchina

Olympia Morataª