Women's Works , in four volumes, is the most comprehensive and accurate anthology of the women's tradition in English. All selections have been edited in normalized spelling from the most authoritative early manuscript and print sources. All texts originally written in Latin, Old English, French, or Welsh are here accompanied by a parallel translation in modern English. Volume one covers women's poetry and prose from the Brythonic, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, late Medieval, and Reformation periods: 1. English Literature – Medieval – Reformation. 2. Women Writers. 3. Canu Heledd, trans. D. Foster; 4. Exeter Book, trans. D. Foster. 5. Marie de France, Fables, trans. Harriet Spiegel; Lay le Frein, anon. trans.; 6. Katherine of Sutton, trans. Michael O’Connell. 7. Trotulas; childbirth; midwives; 8. Julian of Norwich. 9. Margery (Brunham) Kempe. 10. Lollardy. 11. Awisia Moon. 12. Margery Baxter. 13. Julian Barnes (Berners). 14. Margaret of Anjou. 15. Findern Manuscript. 16. Paston Letters. 17. Floure and the Leaf. 18. (Queen) Elizabeth of York. 19. Margaret Beaufort. 20. Gwerful Mechain. 21. Christine de Pizan. 22. English nunneries. 23. Elizabeth Barton, Holy Maid of Kent. 24. Coffin-Welles Anthology. 25. (Queen) Catherine of Aragon. 26. (Queen) Anne Boleyn. 27. Margaret Douglas (Stuart). 28. Mary Shelton (Heveningham). 29. (Queen) Jane Seymour. 30. (Queen) Anne of Cleves. 31. (Queen) Katherine Howard. 32. The Birth of Mankind; or, the Woman’s Book. 33. (Queen) Katherine Parr. 34. Anne Askew. Et al. 35. Songs and occasional verse. Royalties from this book support UNICEF. “A remarkable contribution to scholarship that is also a pedagogical treasure, Women’s Works … should be in every university and college library and open on the desks of everyone teaching courses on or including seventeenth-century English literature.” —Margaret Ferguson, Prof. of English Emerita, UC Davis & past president of the Modern Language Association. “This collection is a revelation, even to those of us who have long been interested in women’s writing. From now on, it will be an indispensable resource.” —Phyllis Rackin, Professor of English Emerita, UPenn, and past president of the Shakespeare Association. "[A]uthoritative and comprehensive, complete and final…It will not, because it cannot, be superseded.” —Arthur F. Kinney, Prof. Emeritus, UMass Amherst & Past Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies “The anthology we have needed for so long has finally arrived." —Valerie Wayne, Professor of English Emerita, University of Hawai’i at Manoa.