WRITERS LIVING BETWEEN 3000 BC AND 1000

• 'Anan ( - ca. 846)
• Abbad, Afira bint [aka Ashshamus] (fl. 3th cent.)
• Addumainiyya, Umaima (fl. 747)
• Adelwip [aka Adelheid von Schaerbeck; Adelviva] ( - 1000)
• al-'Adawiyya, Rabi'a [aka Rabi'a the Mystic; Rabia al Basri] (ca. 717 - ca. 802) ; More Information ; Wikipedia
• al-'Akhyaliyya, Layla ( - 709)
• al-Aadiyya, Mahd (fl. 4001 BC)
• al-Aamiriyya, Laila bint Sa'd ( - 688)
• al-Baghdadiyya, Aasiya (fl. 830)
• al-Khansa [aka Tumadir bint Amr ibn Ashsharid] ( - 646) ; Wikipedia
• al-Kilabiyya, Zahra (fl. 820)
• al-Ma'muniyya, Arib (797 - 890)
• al-Mahdi, Lubana bint Ali ibn (787 - 813)
• al-Mahdi, Ulayya bint (777 - 825)
• al-Mu'tasim, Aa'isha bint (fl. 820)
• Ambapali (ca. 560 BC - 480 BC) ; More Information ; Wikipedia
• Anonymous (fl. 601 BC)
• Antal [aka Goda; Kotai] (fl. 850) ; Wikipedia
• Anyte, of Tegea (fl. 4th cent. BC)
  • The Poems of Anyte of Tegea, Translated by Richard Aldington; Poems and Fragments of Sappho, Translated by Edward Storer (London: The Egoist, 1919) (HTML at elfinspell.com)
• Arete of Cyrene (fl. 371 BC) ; Wikipedia
• Ashsha'ira, Fadl ( - 871)
• Auvaiyar (fl. 280 - 299) ; Wikipedia
• Bahdal, Maisun bint ( - 700)
• Ban, Zhao, approximately 49-approximately 120 [aka Pan Chao; Cao Dagu] (ca. 49 - ca. 120)
• Baudonivia, 6th-7th cent. (fl. 600 - 602) ; More Information
• Cai, Wenji, approximately 177-approximately 239 [aka Cai Yen] (ca. 177 - ca. 239)
• Dhuoda [aka comtessa de Barcelona i de Septimània Duoda] (fl. 9th cent.) ; Wikipedia
• Egeria, active 4th century-5th century [aka Egeria; Etheria; Ætheria] (fl. 5th cent.) ; More Information ; More Information ; More Information ; Wikipedia
  • The Pilgrimage of Etheria (1919 SPCK edition of all extant portions of this work) (HTML at CCEL)
  • The Pilgrimage of S. Silvia of Aquitania to the Holy Places (Circ. 385 A.D.) (in English only (Latin text omitted); London: Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society, 1896) (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Enheduanna [aka daughter of Sargon Enheduanna] (fl. 2350 - 2200 BC) ; More Information ; Wikipedia
• Eudocia, Empress, consort of Theodosius II, Emperor of the East, -460 [aka Eudokia; Athenais] (ca. 400 - October 20, 460)
• Eustochium, Saint, 370?-419 [aka Julia Eustochium] (370 - 419) ; More Information ; Wikipedia
  • The Letter of Paula and Eustochium to Marcella, About the Holy Places (386 A.D.) (London: Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society, 1896) (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Gunderson, Mary (155 - ) ; More Information
• Hamdun, Hatsa bint (fl. 900 - 1000)
• Hamilton, C. G., Mrs. [aka C. G. H.] (fl. 19)
  • The Unclaimed Daughter: A Mystery of Our Own Day (second edition, ca. 1853) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hamilton, Laurell K. (February 19, 163 - ) ; More Information ; Wikipedia
• Hrotsvitha, approximately 935-approximately 975 [aka Roswitha von Gandersheim; Hrotsvit of Gandersheim; Hrotsvitha Gandeshemensis; Rosvita] (ca. 930 - ca. 975) ; More Information ; More Information ; Wikipedia
  • Abraham: A Play by Roswitha, the Nun of Gandersheim (1922) (multiple formats at archive.org)
  • Comoedias sex / ad fidem codicis emmeranensis typis expressas edidit, praefationem poetriae et eius epistolam ad quosdam sapientes huius libri fautores praemisit, versiculos quosdam Hrotsvithae, nondum antea editos, eodem ex codice iis adiunxit J. Bendixen. (Lubecae : [s.n.], 1862) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • Das älteste drama in Deutschland; oder, Die comödien der nonne Hrotswitha von Gandersheim, übers. und erlautert von J. Bendixen. (Altona, Hammerich & Lesser, 1850-) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
  • Das älteste drama in Deutschland; oder: Die comödien der nonne Hrotswitha von Gandersheim, übersetzt und erläutert von J. Bendixen. Erste hälfte: Gallicanus, Dulcitius, Callimachus. (Altona, 1850) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • DAS ÄLTESTE DRAMA IN DEUTSCHLAND : ORDER, DIE COMÖDIEN DER NONNE HROTSWITHA VON GANDERSHEIM / ÜBERSEST UND ERLAUTERT VON J. BENDIZIN. (ALTONA : HAMMERICH U. LESSER., 1850-53) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • Der Hrotsuitha Gedicht über Gandersheims Gründung und die Thaten Kaiser Oddo I. Nach der Ausgabe der Monumenta Germaniae übersetzt von Dr. Th. G. Pfund. (Leipzig, Dyk, [1891]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
  • Die dramen der Roswitha von Gandersheim. (Leipzig, P. Reclam, jun., [1889]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
  • Die werke der Hrotsvitha. Herausgegeben von dr. K. A. Barack ... (Nürnberg. Bauer u. Raspe, 1858) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • Hrosvvithae ... opera, partim soluto, partim victo sermonis genere ab ea conscripta, duobus abhinc seculis a Conrado Celte formis primum expressa, nunc denuo, multorum rogatu, ad usum publicum recognita, et ab inficeto scribendi more repurgata, cura et studio Henrici Leonardi Schvrzfleischii. Accessit eiusdem praefatio cum aiecto indice. (Vitembergae Saxonvm, Apud C. Schrödtervm, 1707) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • Hrotsvithae Opera. (Berolini, apvd Weidmannos, 1902) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
  • Hrotsvithae Opera / edidit Karolus Strecker. (Lipsiae : Teubner, 1906) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
  • Oeuvres dramatiques de Hrotsvitha, vierge et religieuse allemae de race saxonne traduction littérale d'après le Manuscrit de Munich; précédée d'une ètude historique / [par Coecilia Vellini]. (Paris : Société d'éditions, 1907) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
  • Opera; recensvit et emendavit Paulus de Winterfeld. (Berolini, Weidmann, 1902) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
  • Otto der Grosse ... aus dem Lateinischen ins Deutsche metrisch übersetzt von K.F.A. Nobbe. (Lpz., [1851]-52) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • Poésies latines de Rosvith : religieuse saxonne du Xe siècle / avec une traduction libre en vers français par Vignon Rétif de la Bretonne. (Paris : Napoléon Chaix et Ce, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • Théâtre de Hrotsvitha (in French; Paris: B. Duprat, 1845) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • Théâtre de Hrotsvitha, religieuse allemande du Xe siècle, traduit pour la première fois en français avec le texte latin revu zur le manuscrit de Munich, précédé d'une introd. et suivi de notes par Charles Magnin. (Paris : B. Duprat, 1845) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hygeburg [aka Hugeburc; Huneburc] (fl. 778) ; Wikipedia
• Hypatia, -415 [aka of Alexandria Hypatia] (ca. 370 - 415) ; More Information ; More Information ; More Information ; More Information ; More Information ; More Information ; Wikipedia
• Inan ( - 841)
• Ise no go (Lady Ise) [aka Ise no miyasudokoro] (ca. 875 - ca. 938)
• Iwa no Hime, Empress ( - 347) ; Wikipedia
• Izumi Shikibu, 974?- (974 - ) ; Wikipedia
  • Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan (Boston And New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1920) (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Kāraikkālammai, 6th cent. [aka Karaikkal Ammaiyar; Punitavati] (fl. 500)
• Karu, Princess [aka Sotoshi] (fl. 5th cent.)
• Kasa, Iratsume, 8th cent. (fl. 701)
• Kassiane [aka Kassia] (fl. 805) ; Wikipedia
• Kulaib, Umama bint ( - 494)
• Lukaiz, Laila bint ( - 483)
• Maria the Jewess [aka Miriam the Prophetess; Maria Prophetissima; Mary of Cleofa] (fl. 1st cent.) ; Wikipedia
• Mas-hal, Dahna bint (fl. 700)
• Michitsuna no Haha, approximately 935-995 [aka Udaisho Michitsuna no haha] (ca. 935 - 995) ; Wikipedia
• Muhammad, Fatima bint (605 - ca. 632) ; Wikipedia
• Murasaki Shikibu, 978?- [aka Lady Murasaki] (ca. 978 - ca. 1031) ; More Information ; More Information ; Wikipedia
  • Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan (Boston And New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1920) (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
  • Genji Monogatari (From "Japanese Literature"; New York: Colonial Press, 1900) (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
  • Genji monogatari (1654) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • Genji monogatari hyōshaku. ([1853-1861, pref. 1854]) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • Genji monogatari : the most celebrated of the Japapnese romances / translated by Suyematz Kenchio. (Yokohama : Z.P. Maruya, [1881?]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
  • Kogetsushō (1675) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • Murasaki Shikibu nikki ([1884]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
  • Shinyaku Genji monogatari. ([1914]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
  • The Tale of Genji (HTML with commentary at unesco.org)
• Murra, Jalila bint ( - 540)
• Nukada no Okimi [aka Princess Nukata] (ca. 638 - ca. 690)
• Nusayb al-Asghar ( - 791)
• Oku, Princess, daughter of Tenmu, Emperor of Japan (February 12, 661 - January 29, 702) ; Wikipedia
• Ono, Komachi, 9th cent. (ca. 834 - )
• Ono, Komachi, 9th cent. (fl. 850)
• Otokami, S. (fl. 9th cent.)
• Otomo no Sakanoue Iratsume (fl. 8th cent.)
• Paula, Saint, 347-404 [aka Paula the Elder] (347 - 404) ; More Information ; Wikipedia
  • The Letter of Paula and Eustochium to Marcella, About the Holy Places (386 A.D.) (London: Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society, 1896) (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Perpetua, Saint, -203 [aka Vibia Perpetua] (ca. 181 - March 7, 202) ; More Information ; More Information ; More Information ; More Information ; Wikipedia
• Proba, 4th cent. [aka Faltonia Betitia Proba] (fl. 4th cent.)
• Radegunda, Queen, consort of Clotaire I, King of the Franks, -587 [aka Saint Radegunda] (ca. 520 - August 13, 587) ; More Information
• Sagami, approximately 998- [aka Otojiju] (ca. 998 - )
• Sappho (fl. 613 BC) ; More Information ; Wikipedia
  • Carmina et fragmenta recensuit commentario illustravit, schemata musica adjecit H.F.M. Volger. (Lipsiae, Weidman, 1810) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • Memoir, text, selected renderings, and a literal translation by H.T. Wharton. (London, Stott, 1887) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
  • The Poems of Anyte of Tegea, Translated by Richard Aldington; Poems and Fragments of Sappho, Translated by Edward Storer (London: The Egoist, 1919) (HTML at elfinspell.com)
  • The Poems of Sappho (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
  • The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English (Portland, ME: Smith and Sale, 1910) (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
  • Poésies. Par Redarez-Saint-Remy. (Paris, L. Hachette et cie, 1852) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • Saffo. Con introduzione, versioni e commenti. (Milano, Presso l'Amministrazione di "Aegyptus", 1921) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
  • Sappho : [Viginti duo carmina] (Monaci : apud Piperum et co., 1921) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
  • Sappho, and the Vigil of Venus, (New York, The Macmillan co., 1920) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • Sappho; aus dem griechischen übertragen von Wilhelm Walther. (Leipzig, Eckardt, 1914) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
  • Sappho : memoir, text, selected renderings and a literal translation / by Henry Thornton Wharton. (London : D. Stott ; Chicago : A. C. McClurg, 1887) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
  • Sappho : memoir, text, selected renderings and a literal translation / by Henry Thornton Wharton. (London : David Stott, 1885) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
  • Sappho; memoir, text, selected renderings, and a literal translation by Henry Thornton Wharton. (London, John Lane, Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co., 1895) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
  • Sappho. Memoir, text, selected renderings, and a literal translation by Henry Thornton Wharton. (New York; London : J. Lane, 1907) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
  • Sapphonis Mytilenaeae fragmenta; specimen operae in omnibus artis Graecorum lyricae reliquiis excepto Pindaro collocandae. Memoriam anniversariam ... Scholae provincialis Portensis ... celebrandam indicit ... Christianus Fridericus Neue. (Berolini, ex officina G.C. Nauckii, 1827) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • Sapphvs Lesbiae Carmina et fragmenta recensvit commentario illvstravit schemata mvsica adiecit et indicis confecit Henr. Frid. Magnvs Volger. (Lipsiae, Weidmannia, 1810) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • Selected works and commentary (HTML at classicpersuasion.org)
  • The songs of Sappho, including the recent Egyptian discoveries : the poems of Erinna, Greek poems about Sappho, Ovid's epistle of Sappho to Phaon / translated into rimed verse by Marion Mills Miller ; Greek text prepared and annotated and literally translated into prose by David Moore Robinson. (New York : Frank-Maurice, 1925) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sei Shōnagon, approximately 967- (ca. 965 - ca. 1010) ; More Information ; Wikipedia
• Selecky, Sarah Lucille, 1974- (174 - ) ; Wikipedia
• Senshi, Princess, daughter of Murakami, Emperor of Japan, 964-1035 [aka Senshi Naishinno] (964 - 1035)
• Sotori, Princess [aka Sotoshi] (fl. 5th cent.)
• Sulpicia [aka wife of Calenus Sulpicia] (fl. 1st cent.) ; More Information ; Wikipedia
• Sulpicia, active 1st century B.C. [aka daughter of Servius Sulpicius Rufus Sulpicia] (fl. 1st cent. BC) ; More Information ; Wikipedia
• Tarif, Laila bint ( - 815)
• Theano [aka of Croton Theano] (fl. 547 BC) ; More Information ; Wikipedia
• Wang Zhaojun [aka Wang Qiang] (51 BC - ) ; Wikipedia
• Xue, Tao, 768-831 [aka Hsueh Tao] (ca. 768 - ca. 831)
• Yata no Waki-iratsume (fl. 4th cent.)
• Ye-śes-mtsho-rgyal, 8th cent. [aka Yeshe Tsogyal] (fl. 8th cent.)
• Yu, Xuanji, 842-872 [aka Yu Hsuan-chi] (ca. 842 - ca. 871)
• Zhuo, Wenjun, approximately 179 B.C.-approximately 117 B.C. (180 BC - 118 BC) ; Wikipedia