WRITERS LIVING BETWEEN 1401 AND 1500

• Almada, Filipa de (fl.1481)
• Beaufort, Margaret (1443-1509)
• Berners, Juliana [aka Dame Julians Barnes; Dame Julyans Bernes] (fl.1460) ; More Information
  • A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle (illustrated HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Bijns, Anna (1493-1575)
• Cartagena, Teresa de (ca.1420-1470)
• Castiglione, Ippolita Torelli (1499-1520)
• Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536)
• Catherine of Bologna [aka Caterina dei Vigri; Santa Caterina Vegri] (1413-1463)
• Catherine of Genoa [aka Caterina Fieschi Adorno] (1447-1510)
  • Life and Doctrine of Saint Catherine of Genoa (with biographical material by unknown author) (HTML and other formats at CCEL)
• Cely, Margery (fl.1484)
• Cereta, Laura (1469-1499) ; More Information ; More Information ; More Information ; More Information
• Christine de Pisan [aka Christine de Pizan] (ca.1364-ca.1431) ; Concordance ; More Information ; More Information ; More Information ; More Information ; More Information
  • Boke of the Fayt of Armes and of Chyualrye (Westminster: W. Caxton, 1489) (at page images at loc.gov)
  • The Book of the Duke of True Lovers (London: Chatto and Windus, 1908) (multiple formats at archive.org)
  • The Epistle of Othea to Hector: or, The Boke of Knyghthode (London: J. B. Nichols and Sons, 1904) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ciaperelli, Costanza (ca.1410-)
• Cleves, Marie Marquise d'Isles (1426-1487)
• Colonna, Vittoria (1490-1547) ; More Information ; Portrait
  • Amaro Lagrimar: The Poems of Vittoria Colonna (in English and Italian) (HTML and page images at jimandellen.org)
• D'Este, Isabella [aka Marchesa of Mantova] (1474-1539) ; More Information ; Portrait
• Dentiere, Marie [aka Marie d'Ennetieres] (ca.1495-1561)
• Eleonore von Österreich (1433-1480)
• Elisabeth von Nassau-Saarbrücken (1397-1456)
• Fedele, Cassandra (1465-1558)
• Filleul, Jeanne (1424-1498)
• Galindo, Beatriz (ca.1474-1534)
• Gambara, Veronica (1485-1550) ; More Information ; More Information ; Portrait
  • Secret Sacred Woods: The Poems of Veronica Gambara (in English and Italian) (HTML at jimandellen.org)
• Grumbach, Argula von (ca.1492-1563)
• Gwerful Mechain (fl.1462-1500)
• Hatzlerin, Clara (1430-1476)
• Jefimija (fl.1350-ca 1410)
• Julian of Norwich (ca.1342-ca.1416) ; More Information
  • A Revelation of Love (in Middle English) (HTML at Michigan)
  • Revelations of Divine Love (language somewhat modernized) (HTML at CCEL)
  • The Shewings of Julian of Norwich (frame-dependent HTML at Rochester)
• Kempe, Margery (ca.1373-ca.1438 or 1439)
  • The Book of Margery Kempe (HTML at Rochester)
• Kottanner, Helene (1400-ca.1470)
• Lisle, Honor Grenville Basset (ca.1495-1566)
• Lopez de Cordoba, Leonor (ca.1362-1412)
• Louise de Savoie (1476-1531)
• Macinghi Strozzi, Alessandra (1407-1471)
• Marguerite d'Autriche (1480-1530)
• Marguerite de Navarre d'Angouleme Duchesse d'Alencon (1492-1549) ; More Information ; Portrait ; Portrait
  • The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Mihri Khatun (fl.1500)
• Nogarola, Angela (-ca. 1436)
• Nogarola, Ginevra (fl.1436)
• Nogarola, Isotta (1418-ca.1466)
• Paston, Margaret (-1484)
• Perchta of Rozmberk [aka Perchta z Rozmberka; Perchta von Rosenberg] (ca.1429-1476)
• Pinar, Florencia (ca.1470-1530)
• Pirckheimer, Caritas [aka Charitas; Barbara Pirckheimer] (1467-1532)
• Poitiers, Diane de (1499-1566)
• Pulci, Antonia Giannotti (1452-1501) ; More Information
• Riccoboni, Bartolomea (1369-1440)
• Savorgnan, Maria Late (fl.1500)
• Tornabuoni de' Medici, Lucrezia (1425-1482)
• Villena, Isabel de (1430-1490)
• Zeli, Katharina (ca.1497-1562)