The pre-1800 women writers meme

Bardiac has started a Really dead women writers meme, aiming to put some pre-1800 women writers into an already-circulating list, and I can't resist. Here's her description:

I'll put in five women writers. If you're interested, pick up the list, add five more of your favorites, and drop me a line at Bardiacblogger at yahoo dot com to check your site. With even a few contributors, we'll get a great meme with fewer of my idiosyncracies than if I do it myself. (And yes, it will probably end up Euro-centered, but I'd love to learn more about non-Euro earlier women writers, too, so add them in, please!)

Here's Bardiac's list:

Behn, Aphra - Oroonoko
Christine de Pisan (aka Pizan) - The Book of the City of Ladies
Julian of Norwich - Revelations of Divine Love
Locke, Anne (aka Ane Lok, etc) - A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner
Marie de France - The Lais of Marie de France

And here are my contributions:

Bradstreet, Anne: collected poems
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Fama y obras póstumas
Kempe, Margery: The Book of Margery Kempe
Lanyer, Aemilia: Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
Wroth, Lady Mary: Urania

(The ones in bold are the ones I've read. Also kind of Eurocentric, but Anne Bradstreet and Sor Juana at least lived across the Atlantic.)

Comments

[Medieval Woman]

Hi Amanda,

I just finished adding a few of my own entries to the list - also, I happened to notice that among the books in your library over to the right, you have a Patrick O'Brien book ("The Surgeon's Mate" - a great one)! Have you read the Aubrey-Maturin series? I just finished reading them for the second time...

[Bardiac]

Hi Amanda,

Thanks for contributing to the meme! I'm starting to put things together to post a fuller version.

[Amanda]

Yay!

And MW, I'm partway through the Aubrey-Maturin series -- I've been reading them in a lazily on-again, off-again manner. I stopped at around "The Surgeon's Mate" a while back, then restarted from the beginning a year or two ago.