Key Women
This list is NOT exhaustive!
Where appropriate I have included information on key works from the women concerned (not all were writers and poets). Not all of these are available in the library but many are on Google Books or the Internet Archive.
- Julia Cartwright Ady
Mantegna and Francia
The Early Work of Raphael
Raphael in Rome
Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497. A study of the Renaissance
The Painters of Florence from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century
Isabella d'Este, Marchioness of Mantua, 1474-1539; a study of the Renaissance
The Life and Art of Sandro Botticelli
Raphael
Baldassare Castiglione the perfect courtier, his life and letters, 1478-1529
Italian Gardens of the Renaissance, and Other Studies - Ashurst Family (Elizabeth and her daughters Eliza Bardonnau, Matilda Biggs, Caroline Stansfeld and Emilie Venturi)
Mazzini's Letters to an English Family - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Aurora Leigh
Casa Guidi Windows - Isa Blagden
Agnes Tremorne - Selina Bunbury
A Visit to the Catacombs, or First Christian Cemeteries at Rome: and a Midnight Visit to Mount Vesuvius
Evelyn, or, A journey from Stockholm to Rome in 1847-48 - Frances Power Cobbe
Italics
Newspaper journalism - Charlotte Cushman (US)
- Madame (Germaine) De Staël (Swiss)
Corinne, or, Italy - George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
Romola - Kate Field (US)
- Margaret Fuller (Ossoli) (US)
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
At Home and Abroad - Arethusa Gibson
- Georgina Grahame
In a Tuscan Garden
Under Petraia, With Some Saunterings
- Harriet Hamilton King
Aspromonte and other poems (including Italy, The Execution of Felice Orsini and The Battle Hymn for Garibaldi's British Legion)
The Disciples
Letters and Recollections of Mazzini - Matilda Hays
Adrienne Hope
Helen Stanley - Harriet Hosmer (US)
- Vernon Lee (Violet Paget)
Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy
Euphorion: Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance
Renaissance Fancies And Studies Being A Sequel To Euphorion
The Child In The Vatican
In Umbria: A Study of Artistic Personality
Sister Benvenuta and the Christ Child, an eighteenth-century legend
The Spirit of Rome: Leaves from a Diary
Ravenna and Her Ghosts
The Sentimental Traveller . Notes on Places - Anna Jameson
Diary of an Enuyee
House of Titian
Sacred and Legendary Art - Edmonia Lewis (US)
- Dorothy Nevile Lees
Scenes and Shrines
Tuscan Feasts
Tuscan Friends - Sara Levi Nathan
- Florence Nightingale
Letters Written by Florence Nightingale in Rome in the Winter of 1847-1848 - Ouida (Maria Louise Rame)
Friendship - Sarah Parker Remond (US)
- Janet Ross
Italian Sketches
Leaves from Our Tuscan Kitchen, or, How to Cook Vegetables
The Land of Manfred prince of Tarentum…
Florentine Palaces And Their Stories
Lives of the Early Medici As Told in Their Correspondence
The Story of Pisa
The Story of Lucca
Old Florence and Modern Tuscany
Florentine Villas - Giorgina Saffi
- Julia Salis Schwabe (German)
- Mary Shelley
Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus
Valperga; or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca
Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843 - Ann Radcliffe
A Sicilian Romance
The Romance of the Forest
The Mysteries of Udolpho
The Italian - Mariana Starke
Letters from Italy, between the years 1792 and 1798 containing a view of the Revolutions in that country
Travels on the Continent: written for the use and particular information of travellers
Travels in Europe between the years 1824 and 1828 adapted to the use of travellers (London 1828) - Clementia Taylor
- Frances (Fanny) Trollope
A Visit to Italy - Theodosia Garrow Trollope
Social Aspects of the Italian Revolution, in a Series of Letters from Florence: With a Sketch of Subsequent Events up to the Present Time - Lina Waterfield
The Story of Perugia
The Story of Assisi
Rome and Its Story
Concise and Practical Guide to Rome
Home Life in Italy: Letters from the Apennines
Castle in Italy: An Autobiography - Jessie White Mario
Birth of Modern Italy
Newspaper journalism in the Daily News
The Poor in Naples