Annotated bibliography of readings related to Shakespeare's Sisters

The following list is not meant to be comprehensive but to provide at least one modern edition and one fairly recent biography for each author, when such is available. In many cases, modern editions of the works contain good biographical introductions. Though there are many excellent works in other languages, this list focuses on books in English for purposes of accessibility.

• d'Aragona, Tullia (ca. 1510-1556)

Sweet Fire: Tullia D'Aragona's Poetry of Dialogue and Selected Prose

Trans. and ed., Elizabeth A. Pallitto (Braziller, 2006).

Folger Call Number: PQ4562. A9 A2 2006

• Astell, Mary (1666-1731)

Serious Proposal to the Ladies: Parts I and II

ed. Patricia Springborg (Broadview Press, 2002).

Folger Call Number: HQ1596 .A87 2002

• Perry, Ruth

The Celebrated Mary Astell: an Early English Feminist (U of Chicago Press, 1986)

Folger Call Number: HQ1595.A7 P4

• Battiferri, Laura (1523-1589)

Laura Battiferri and Her Literary Circle

ed. and trans. Victoria Kirkham (University of Chicago Press, 2006)

Folger Call Number: PQ4607.B6 A24 2006

• Aphra Behn (1640-1689)

Oroonoko, the Rover, and Other Works

ed. Janet Todd (Penguin Classics 1992)

Folger Call Number: PR3317 .A13 1992

• Todd, Janet

The Secret Life of Aphra Behn (Andre Deutsch, 1996)

Folger Call Number: PR3317.Z5 T63 1996

• Cary, Lady Elizabeth (1585-1693)

Life and Letters

ed. Heather Wolfe (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001)

Folger Call Number: PR2499.F3 Z48 2001

• Cary, Lady Elizabeth (1585-1693)

Tragedy of Mariam: the fair queen of Jewry

ed. Karin Britland (Methuen, 2010)

Folger Call Number: PR2499.F3 T7 2010

• Cavendish, Margaret, duchess of Newcastle (1624?-1674)

Convent of Pleasure and other Plays

ed. Anne Shaver (Johns Hopkins UP, 1999)

Folger Call Number: PR3605.N2 A6 1999

• Cavendish, Margaret, duchess of Newcastle (1624?-1674)

Paper Bodies: a Margaret Cavendish Reader

ed. Sylvia Bowerbank and Sara Mendelson (Broadview, 2000)

Folger Call Number: [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=110932/

PR3605.N2 A6 2000]

• Cavendish, Margaret, duchess of Newcastle (1624?-1674)

Political Writings

ed. Susan James (Cambridge UP, 2003)

Folger Call Number: PR3605.N2 A6 2003

• Whitaker, Katie

Mad Madge; the extraordinary life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, the first woman to live by her pen (Basic Books, 2002)

Folger Call Number: PR3605.N2 Z95 2002

• Centlivre, Susannah (1667?-1723)

Miscellaneous Plays

intro. Stephanie Hodgson-Wright (Ashgate, 2000)

Folger Call Number: PR1127 .E37 2001 pt.1, v.7

• Centlivre, Susannah (1667?-1723)

The Basset Table

ed. Jane Milling (Broadview Press, 2009)

Folger Call Number: PR3339.C6 B38 2009

• Clifford, Lady Anne (1590-1676)

Memoir of 1603 and The Diary of 1616-1619

ed. Katherine Acheson (Broadview Editions, 2007)

Folger Call Number: DA378.P4 A3 2007

• Spence, Richard T.

Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Pembroke, Dorset, and Montgomery (1590-1676) (Sutton, 1997)

Folger Call Number: DA378.P4 S64 1997

*Colonna, Vittoria (1492-1547)

Sonnets for Michelangelo: a bilingual edition

ed. and trans. Abigail Brundin (U of Chicago Press, 2005)

Folger Call Number: PQ4620 .A24 2005

• Brundin, Abigail

Vittoria Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian Reformation (Ashgate, 2008)

Folger Call Number: PQ4620 .B78 2008

• Des Roches, Madeleine (1520-1587) and Catherine (1542-1587)

From Mother and Daughter: Poems, dialogues, and Letters of Les Dames Des Roches

ed. and trans. Anne R. Larsen (U of Chicago Press, 2006)

Folger Call Number: PQ1609.D49 A6 2006

• Tarte, Kendall B.

Writing Places: Sixteenth-Century City Culture and the Des Roches Salon (U of Delaware Press, 2007)

Folger Call Number: PQ1609.D49 T37 2007