1: Edith Hall and Rosie Wyles: Introduction: Approaches to the
Fountain
2: Carmel McCallum-Barry: Learned Women of the Renaissance and
Early Modern Period in Italy and England: the Relevance of their
Scholarship
3: Sofia Frade: Hic sita Sigea est: satis hoc: Luisa Sigea and the
Role of D. Maria, Infanta of Portugal, in Female Scholarship
4: Rosie Wyles: Ménage's Learned Ladies: Anne Dacier (1647-1720)
and Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678)
5: Anne Dacier (1681), Renée Vivien (1903), or What Does it Mean
for a Woman to Translate Sapphoa
6: Edith Hall: Intellectual Pleasure and the Woman Translator in
17th and 18th-Century England
7: Jennifer Wallace: Confined and Exposed: Elizabeth Carter's
Classical Translations
8: Liz Gloyn: This Is Not A Chapter About Jane Harrison: Teaching
Classics at Newnham College, 1882-1922
9: Michele Valerie Ronnick: Classical Education and the Advancement
of African American Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth
Centuries
10: Barbara F. McManus: Grace Harriet Macurdy (1866 1946):
Redefining the Classical Scholar
11: Judith P. Hallett: Greek (and Roman) Ways and Thoroughfares:
the Routing of Edith Hamilton's Classical Antiquity
12: Roland Mayer: Margaret Alford: a Cambridge Latinist
(1868-1951)
13: Judith P. Hallett: Eli's Daughters: Female Classics Graduate
Students at Yale, 1892-1941
14: Catharine Roth: 'Ada Sara Adler (1878-1946): "The greatest
woman philologist who ever lived"'
15: Nina Braginskaya: Olga Freidenberg: a Creative Mind
Incarcerated
16: Eleanor Irwin: An Unconventional Classicist: the Work and Life
of Kathleen Freeman
17: Laetitia Parker: A.M. Dale
18: Rowena Fowler: Betty Radice (1912-1985) and the Survival of
Classics
19: Barbara K. Gold: Simone Weil: Receiving the Iliad
20: Ruth Webb: Jacqueline de Romilly
Afterword
Bibliography
Rosie Wyles has been a Lecturer in Classical History and Literature
at the University of Kent since 2014, having previously held posts
at the University of Oxford, the National University of Ireland
Maynooth, the University of Nottingham, and King's College London.
Her research interests include Greek and Roman performance arts,
costume, reception studies within antiquity and beyond, and gender.
Her monograph Costume in Greek Tragedy was published in 2011;
she has also published chapters on ancient performance and its
reception in several collected volumes and her study of Madame
Dacier's translations of Aristophanes will be included in the
forthcoming Brill's
Companion to the Reception of Aristophanes. After holding posts at
universities including Oxford, Cambridge, and Durham, Edith Hall
took up a chair in Classics at King's College London in 2012. She
has published more than twenty books on diverse aspects of ancient
Greek and Roman literature and its reception and is a regular
broadcaster on BBC Radio and consultant to professional theatre
companies, including the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National
Theatre. Her most recent book,
Introducing the Ancient Greeks, was published by Bodley Head in
2015, in which year she was also awarded the 2015 Erasmus Prize of
the European Academy for her contribution to international
research. This book
represents the editors' second collaboration, having previously
co-edited the volume New Directions in Ancient Pantomime for Oxford
University Press in 2008. The book was met with critical acclaim on
publication and one essay was selected as Best Article for 2008 by
the Women's Classical Caucus.
In summary, this is a positive, inclusive, wide-ranging collection
which challenges the idea of the history of classical scholarship
being inherently masculinised, and foregrounds the way in which
women have contributed to the field. It sits alongside the ongoing
feminist project of writing women back in history generally, and
complements the exciting work on gender being done in Classics.
Uncovering our 'foremothers' continues to authorise women's
purchase on the field and serves as an act of both assimilation and
inspiration.
*Linda Grant, Bryn Mawr Classical Review*
an enterprisingly international collection, celebrating the
struggles and successes of women intellectuals from the Renaissance
to the twentieth century
*Mary Beard, Times Literary Supplement*
For researchers invested in tracing the histories of women, or
'unsealing the fountain' of knowledge about their lives, this book
is a revelation. Collecting and analyzing what we know about women
scholars who translated, wrote about, and promoted classical texts
from various cultural locations in Europe, the book contributes in
significant and concrete ways to debates about how to understand
the role of women in shaping European learned culture.
*Cora Fox, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal*
Rosie Wyles and Edith Hall ... are eager to rediscover and bring to
the light the contribution of many women to the discipline of
Classics.
*Marco Formisano, Thersites*
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