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Bio-bibliographical compilations



This type of source has been and is studied in particular by Hilde Hoogenboom, who provided the following list of such compilations, as published before 1900 in several countries, presented below in alphabetical order first and then chronologically.


Alphabetical Order


Ballard, George. Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain Who Have Been Celebrated for Their Writings or Skill in the Learned Languages, Arts and Sciences. Oxford, 1752. Ed. Ruth Perry. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1985.

Biographium Femineum: The Female Worthies: Or, Memoirs of the Most Illustrious Ladies of all Ages and Nations, who have been Eminently distinguished for the Magnanimity, Learning, Genius, Virtue, Piety, and other Excellent Endowments, conspicuous in all the various Stations and Relations of Life, public and private. 2 vols. London: S. Crowder and J. Payne, 1766.

Blanchard, Pierre. Neuer Plutarch, oder, Kurze Lebensbeschreibungen der berühmtesten Männer aller Nationen von den ältesten bis auf unsere Zeiten. Vienna: Im Verlage den Anton Doll, 1806-7.

———. Plutarque de la jeunesse, ou Abrégé des vies des plus grands hommes de toutes les nations, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu’à nos jours. Paris, Chez Le Prieur, 1803-4.

Blanshard and Propiak, Plutarkh dlia prekrasnogo pola, ili zhizneopisaniia velikikh i slavnykh zhen vsekh natsii, drevnikh i novykh vremen. 4 vols. Moscow: Universitetskaia tipografiia, 1816-17.

Boccaccio, Giovanni. Famous Women. Ed. and Trans. Virginia Brown. The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Boilly, Jules and Albert de Montferrand, eds. Biographie des femmes auteurs contemporaines françaises. Paris: Armand Aubrée, 1836.

Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de. Les vies des Dames Illustres de France de son temps. Leiden: Jean Sambix le jeune, 1665.

Briquet, Fortunée B. Dictionnaire historique, littéraire et bibliographique des Françaises et des étrangères naturalisées en France, connues par leurs écrits, ou par la protection qu'elles ont accordée aux gens de lettres, depuis l'établissement de la monarchie jusqu'à nos jours; dédié au premier consul par Mme Fortunée B. Briquet, de la Société des Belles Lettres, et de l'Athénée des Arts de Paris. Paris: Treuttel et Würtz, 1804, repr. Paris: Indigo & Côté-femmes éditions, 1997.

Duncombe, John. The Feminiad. A Poem.. London: M. Cooper, 1754. Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1981.

Dyce, Alexander. Specimens of British Poetesses: Selected and Chronologically Arranged. London: T. Rodd, 1825, 1827, 1828.

Ferri, Conte Pietro Leopoldo. Bibliteca femminile Italiana. Padua: Tipografia Crescini, 1842.

Galerie des dames françaises distinguées dans les lettres et les arts - ancienne monarchie; empire; restauration; époque actuelle. Paris: Dussillon, 1840s.

Genlis, Madame de. De l'influence des femmes sur la littérature française, comme protectrices des lettres et comme auteurs; ou précis de l'histoire des femmes françaises les plus célèbres. Paris: Maradan, 1811.

Ghennady, Grégoire. Les écrivains franco-russes. Bibliographie des ouvrages français publiés par des russes. Dresden: E. Blockmann et fils, 1874.

Golitsyn, Prince N. N. Bibliograficheskii slovar' russkikh pisatel'nits. St. Petersburg: Tipografia V. S. Balasheva, 1889, 1891; Leipzig: Zentralantiquariat der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, 1974.

——— [pseud. Nikolai Knizhnik]. “Slovar’ russkikh pisatel’nits.” Russkii arkhiv. 9, 10-11 (1865): 1139-1232.

———. “Slovar’ russkikh pisatel’nits.” Varshavskii dnevnik, 1880.

——— [pseud. Nikolai Knizhnik]. “Spisok russkim pisatel'nitsam 1759-1857.” Molva No. 28-30, 32, 34, 35 (1857).

Grech, Nikolai. Opyt kratkoi istorii ruskoi literatury. St. Petersburg: Tipografiia N. Grecha, 1822.

Griswold, Rufus W. The Female Poets of America. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1848. ———. Gems from American Female Poets with Brief Biographical Notices. Philadelphia: H. Hooker, 1842.

Gross, Heinrich. Deutsche Dichterinen und Schriftstellerinen in Wort und Bild. 3 vols. Berlin: Fr. Thiel, 1885.

Hale, Sarah Josepha. The Ladies’ Wreath: A Selection from the Female Poetic Writers of England and America: with Original Notices and Notes: Prepared Especially for Young Ladies: a Gift Book for All Seasons. Boston: Marsh, Capen & Lyon; New York: D. Appleton, 1837.

———. Woman's Record; or, Sketches of all Distinguished Women from “The Beginning” till A.D. 1850, arranged in Four Eras with Selections from Female Writers of Every Age (Illustrated by Two Hundred and Thirty Portraits). New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853.

Hart, John S. Female Prose Writers of America, with portraits, biographical notices, and specimens of their writings. Philadelphia: E. H. Butler, 1851.

Kavanagh, Julia. French Women of Letters: Biographical Sketches. 2 vols. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1862.

———. English Women of Letters: Biographical Sketches. 2 vols. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1863.

Keralio, Louise de. Collection des meilleurs ouvrages françois, composés par des femmes, dédiée aux femmes françoises. 14 vols. Vol. 1-4, 9-14, Paris: Lagrange, 1786-88; vol. 5-6, Paris: Claude-François Marande, 1789.

La Croix, Jean-François de. Dictionnaire historique portatif des femmes célèbres. 3 vols. Paris: L. Cellot, 1769.

La Porte, Joseph. Histoire littéraire des femmes françoises: ou, Lettres historiques et critiques, contenant un précis de la vie et une analyse raisonnée des ouvrage des femmes qui se sont distinguées dans la littérature françoise, par une société de gens de lettres. Paris: Chez Lacombe, 1769.

Lehms, Georg Christian. Teutschlands galante Poetinnen Mit Ihnen sinnreichen und netten Proben; Nebst einem Anhang Ausländer Dames, so sich gleichfalls durch Schöne Poesien Bey der curieusen Welt bekannt gemacht, und einer Vorrede. Dass das Weibliche Geschlecht so geschickt zum Studieren als das Männliche. Frankfurt am Main: Anton Heinscheidt, 1714-15.

Makarov, M. N. “Materialy dlia istorii russkikh zhenshchin-avtorov,” Damskii zhurnal 29.1 (1830): 1-5, 29.2 (1830): 17-23, 29.3 (1830): 33-5, 29.7 (1830): 97-102, 29.10 (1830): 145-51, 29.13 (1830): 193-8, 30.15 (1830): 17-20, 30.16 (1830): 33-9, 30.17 (1830): 49-58, 30.18 (1830): 65-76, 30.19 (1830): 81-3, 30.21 (1830): 113-21, 30.25 (1830): 177-85, 31.27 (1830): 1-8, 31.29 (1830): 33-44, 31.30 (1830): 49-55, 31.39 (1830): 193-201, 32.51-52 (1830): 113-20, 35.37 (1831): 161-66, 44.51-2 (1833): 145-50.

May, Caroline. American Female Poets. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1848.

Mez’er, A. V. “Dlia bibliografii zhenshchin-pisatel’nits.” Russkaia slovesnost’ s XI po XIX stoletiia vkliuchitel’no. Bibliograficheskii ukazatel’ proizvedenii russkoi slovesnosti v sviazi s istoriei literatury i kritiki. Vol. 1. St. Petersburg: Tipografia A. Porokhovshchikova, 1899.

Novikov, Nikolai. Opyt istoricheskogo slovaria o rossiiskikh pisateliakh, iz raznykh pechatnykh i rukopisnykh knig, soobshcchennykh izvestii i slovesnykh predanii. St. Petersburg: Tip. Akademii nauk, 1772. Reprint, Moscow: Kniga, 1987.

Pataky, Sophie. Lexikon deutscher Frauen der Feder. Eine Zusammenstellung der seit dem Jahre 1840 erchienenen Werke weiblicher Autoren, nebst Biographieen der lebenden und einem Verzeichnis der Pseudonyme. Berlin: Carl Pataky, 1898.

Pizan, Christine de. The Book of the City of Ladies. Trans. Earl Jeffrey Richards. New York: Persea Books, 1982.

Plutarkh dlia prekrasnogo pola, ili gallereia znamenitykh Rossiianok. Vols. 5-6. Moscow: Universitetskaia tipografiia, 1819-20.

Ponomarev, S. I. “Nashi pisatel'nitsy.” Sbornik otdelenii russkogo iazyka i slovesnosti. 52.7 (St. Petersburg: tipografia Imperatorskoi akademiii nauk, 1891); Leipzig: Zentralantiquariat der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, 1974. 1-22.

Propiac, Catherine-Joseph-Ferdinand Girard de. Le Plutarque des jeunes demoiselles, ou Abrégé des vies des femmes illustres de tous les pays, avec des leçons explicatives de leurs actions et de leurs ouvrages. 2 vols. Paris: Gérard, 1806.

Read, Thomas Buchanan. The Female Poets of America with Portraits, Biographical Notices, and Specimens of their Writings. 6 ed. Philadelphia: E. H. Butler, 1855.

Robertson, Eric. English Poetesses, a Series of Critical Biographies, with Illustrative Extracts. London, Paris, New York: Cassell, 1883.

Rowton, Frederic. The Female Poets of Great Britain, Chronologically Arranged: With Copious Selections and Critical Remarks. 2 ed. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1853; Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1981.

Russov, S. V. Bibliograficheskii katalog rossiiskim pisatel’nitsam. St. Petersburg: Tipografiia Meditsinskogo departamenta Ministerstva vnutrennikh del, 1826.

Sauvigny, Billardon de. Le Parnasse des Dames. 9 vols. Paris: Ruault, 1773.

Schacht, Matthias Henriksen. “Schediasma, exhibens Specimen de Eruditis Mulieribus Daniæ.” Nova Literaria Maris Balthici & Septeitrionis. Lübeck, 1700. 209-19.

Schindel, Carl Wilhelm Otto August von. Die Deutschen Schriftstellerinnen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1823-25. New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1978.

Scudéry, Madeleine de. Les femmes illustres, ou les harangues héroïques. Paris: Chez Antoine de Sommaville & Augustin Courbe, 1642.

Thicknesse, Ann. Sketches of the Lives and Writing of the Ladies of France. London: Dodsley and W. Brown, 1780.

Thura, Albert. Gynæceum Daniæ Litteratum, Feminis Danorum, Eriuditione vel scriptis claris conspicuum. Altona: Apud Jonam Kortf, 1732

Vladimirova, P. V. Pervye russkie pisatel’nitsy XVIII veka i uchastie russkoi zhenshchiny v razvitii narodnoi slovesnosti i drevne-russkoi pis’mennosti (kritiko-istoricheskii ocherk). Kiev: Tipografiia Imperatorskogo Universiteta, 1892.

Voss, Abraham. Deutschlands Dichterinnen. In chronologischer Folge. Düsseldorf: Julius Buddeus, 1847.

Williams, Jane. The Literary Women of England, including a biographical epitome of all the most eminent to the year 1700 and sketches of the poetesses to the year 1850 with extracts from their works, and critical remarks. London: Saunders, Otley, 1861.



Chronological Order


1375 Boccaccio, Giovanni. De mulieribus claris.

1405 Christine de Pizan. Le Livre de la cité des dames.

1642 Scudéry, Madeleine de. Les femmes illustres, ou les harangues héroïques.

1665 Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de. Les vies des Dames Illustres de France de son temps.

1700 Schacht, Matthias Henriksen. “Schediasma, exhibens Specimen de Eruditis Mulieribus Daniæ.”

1714-15 Lehms, Georg Christian. Teutschlands galante Poetinnen Mit Ihnen sinnreichen und netten Proben; Nebst einem Anhang Ausländer Dames, so sich gleichfalls durch Schöne Poesien Bey der curieusen Welt bekannt gemacht, und einer Vorrede. Dass das Weibliche Geschlecht so geschickt zum Studieren als das Männliche.

1732 Thura, Albert. Gynæceum Daniæ Litteratum, Feminis Danorum, Eriuditione vel scriptis claris conspicuum.

1752 Ballard, George. Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain Who Have Been Celebrated for Their Writings or Skill in the Learned Languages, Arts and Sciences.

1754 Duncombe, John. The Feminiad: or, Female Genius.

1766 Biographium Femineum: The Female Worthies: Or, Memoirs of the Most Illustrious Ladies of all Ages and Nations, who have been Eminently distinguished for the Magnanimity, Learning, Genius, Virtue, Piety, and other Excellent Endowments, conspicious in all the various Stations and Relations of Life, public and private.

1769 La Porte, Joseph. Histoire littéraire des femmes françoises: ou, Lettres historiques et critiques, contenant un précis de la vie et une analyse raisonnée des ouvrage des femmes qui se sont distinguées dans la littérature françoise, par une société de gens de lettres.

1769 Lacroix , Jean François de. Dictionnaire historique portatif des femmes célèbres.

1773 Sauvigny, Billardon de. Le Parnasse des Dames.

1780 Thicknesse, Ann. Sketches of the Lives and Writing of the Ladies of France.

1786-89 Keralio, Louise de. Collection des meilleurs ouvrages françois, composés par des femmes, dédiée aux femmes françoises.

1803-4 Blanchard, Pierre. Plutarque de la jeunesse, ou Abrégé des vies des plus grands hommes de toutes les nations, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu’a nos jours.

1804 Briquet, Fortunée B. Dictionnaire historique, littéraire et bibliographique des françaises et des étrangères naturalisées en France, connues par leurs écrits, ou par la protection qu'elles ont accordée aux gens de lettres, depuis l'établissement de la monarchie jusqu'à nos jours; dédié au premier consul par Mme Fortunée B. Briquet, de la société des belles lettres, et de l'Athenée des Arts de Paris.

1806 Propiac, Catherine-Joseph-Ferdinand Girard de. Le Plutarque des jeunes demoiselles, ou Abrégé des vies des femmes illustres de tous les pays, avec des leçons explicatives de leurs actions et de leurs ouvrages.

1806-7 Blanchard, Pierre. Neuer Plutarch, oder, Kurze Lebensbeschreibungen der berühmtesten Männer aller Nationen von den ältesten bis auf unsere Zeiten.

1811 Genlis, Madame de. De l'influence des femmes sur la littérature française, comme protectrices des lettres et comme auteurs; ou précis de l'histoire des femmes françaises les plus célèbres.

1816-17 Blanshard and Propiak, Plutarkh dlia prekrasnogo pola, ili zhizneopisaniia velikikh i slavnykh zhen vsekh natsii, drevnikh i novykh vremen.

1819-20 Plutarkh dlia prekrasnogo pola, ili gallereia znamenitykh Rossiianok..

1823-25 Schindel, Carl Wilhelm Otto August von. Die Deutschen Schriftstellerinnen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts.

1825, 1827, 1828 Dyce, Alexander. Specimens of British Poetesses: Selected and Chronologically Arranged.

1826 Russov, S.V. Bibliograficheskii katalog rossiiskim pisatel'nitsam.

1830-33 Makarov, M. N. "Materialy dlia istorii russkikh zhenshchin-avtorov."

1836 Boilly, Jules and Albert de Montferrand, eds. Biographie des femmes auteurs contemporaine françaises.

1837, 1837, 1839, 1996 Hale, Sarah Josepha, The Ladies’ Wreath: A Selection from the Female Poetic Writers of England and America: with Original Notices and Notes: Prepared Especially for Young Ladies: a Gift Book for All Seasons

1840s Galerie des dames françaises distinguées dans les lettres et les arts - ancienne monarchie; empire; restauration; époque actuelle.

1842, 1847, 1848, 1851 Griswold, Rufus. Gems from American Female Poets with Brief Biographical Notices.

1842 Ferri, Conte Pietro Leopoldo. Bibliteca femminile Italiana.

1847, 1848, 1849, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1856, 1858, 1859, 1860, 1863, 1869, 1873, 1874, 1877, 1892, 1969, 1972, 1978, 2000 Griswold, Rufus. The Female Poets of America. 1847 Voss, Abraham. Deutschlands Dichterinnen. In chronologischer Folge.

1848, 1849, 1850, 1853, 1854, 1856, 1857, 1859, 1865, 1869, 1875, 1876, 1969, 1972, 2005 May, Caroline. American Female Poets.

1848, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1855, 1857, 1864, 1866, 1867, 1887, 1890, 1894, 1969, 1978 Read, Thomas Buchanan. The Female Poets of America with portraits, Biographical Notices, and Specimens of their writings.

1848, 1849, 1852?, 1854, 1856, 185?, 1874, 1883, 1981 Rowton, Frederic. The Female Poets of Great Britain, Chronologically Arranged: With Copious Selections and Critical Remarks.V 1851 Hart, John S. Female Prose Writers of America, with portraits, biographical notices, and specimens of their writings.

1852, 1853, 1855, 1860, 1870, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1876, 1970, 1974, 1975, 1989, 2004 Hale, Sarah Josepha. Woman's Record; or, Sketches of all Distinguished Women from "The Beginning" till A.D. 1850, arranged in Four Eras with Selections from Female Writers of Every Age (Illustrated by Two Hundred and Thirty Portraits).

1857 Golitsyn, Prince N. N. [pseudo. Nikolai Knizhnik]. Spisok russkim pisatel'nitsam 1759-1857.

1861 Williams, Jane. The Literary Women of England, including a biographical epitome of all the most eminent to the year 1700 and sketches of the poetesses to the year 1850 with extracts from their works, and critical remarks.

1862 Kavanagh, Julia. French Women of Letters: Biographical Sketches.

1863 Kavanagh, Julia. English Women of Letters: Biographical Sketches.

1865 Golitsyn, Prince N. N. [pseudo. Nikolai Knizhnik]. “Slovar’ russkikh pisatel’nits”

1874 Ghennady, Grégoire. Les écrivains franco-russes. Bibliographie des ouvrages français publiés par des Russes.

1880 Golitsyn, Prince N. N. “Slovar’ russkikh pisatel’nits.”

1883 Robertson, Eric. English Poetesses, a Series of Critical Biographies, with Illustrative Extracts.

1885 Gross, Heinrich. Deutsche Dichterinen und Schriftstellerinen in Wort und Bild.

1889, 1891 Golitsyn, Prince N. N. Bibliograficheskii slovar' russkikh pisatel'nits.

1891 Ponomarev, S. I. “Nashi pisatel’nitsy.”

1898 Pataky, Sophie. Lexikon deutscher Frauen der Feder. Eine Zusammenstellung der seit dem Jahre 1840 erchienenen Werke weiblicher Autoren, nebst Biographieën der lebenden und einem Verzeichnis der Pseudonyme.



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