Introduces foremothers of the faith who address issues of interpretation that continue to be relevant to faith communities today, such as women's roles in the church and synagogue and the idea of religious feminism.

Table of Contents

• Preface - Marion Ann Taylor
• List of Contributors
• Introduction - Marion Ann Taylor
• Achtemeier, Elizabeth Rice (1926–2002)
• Adams, Hannah (1755–1831)
• Aguilar, Grace (1816–47)
• Angela of Foligno (ca. 1248–1309)
• Anger, Jane (fl. 1589)
• Askew, Anne (ca. 1521–46)
• Astell, Mary (1666–1731)
• Baldwin, Joyce (1921–95)
• Barbauld, Anna (1743–1825)
• Bathurst, Elizabeth (fl. 1678–85)
• Baxter, Elizabeth (1837–1926)
• Beatrice of Nazareth (ca. 1200–1268)
• Beaufort, Margaret (1443–1509)
• Besant, Annie Wood (1847–1933)
• Beutler, Magdalena (1407–58)
• Biddle, Hester (1629/30–97)
• Birgitta of Sweden (1302/3–73)
• Bjarnhjedinsdottir, Briet (1856–1940)
• Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown (1825–1921)
• Boddington, Gracilla (1801–87)
• Booth, Catherine Mumford (1829–90)
• Bowdler, Elizabeth Stuart (ca. 1717–97)
• Bowerman, Elizabeth (Madame Cecilia) (1852–1930)
• Bradstreet, Anne (1612–72)
• Briggs, Emilie Grace (1867–1944)
• Bushnell, Katharine C. (1855–1946)
• Butler, Josephine Elizabeth Grey (1828–1906)
• Carter, Elizabeth (1717–1806)
• Carus-Wilson, Mary Louisa Georgina (Petrie) (1861–1935)
• Cary, Mary (b. 1620/21, fl. 1647–53)
• Catherine of Siena (1347–80)
• Charles, Elizabeth Rundle (1828–96)
• Chase, Mary Ellen (1887–1973)
• Chidley, Katherine (fl. 1616–53)
• Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364–ca. 1430)
• Clare of Assisi (1193/94–1253)
• Collins, An (ca. 1653)
• Copley, Esther Beuzeville Hewlett (1786–1851)
• Corbaux, Marie Françoise Catherine Doetter (Fanny) (1812–83)
• Cornwallis, Mary (1758–1836)
• Crook, Margaret Brackenbury (1886–1972)
• Davies, Eleanor (1590–1652)
• Dawbarn, Elizabeth (fl. 1794–1816)
• Dentière, Marie (1495–ca. 1561)
• Deverell, Mary (fl. 1774–97)
• Dhuoda of Septimania (fl. 841)
• Dietrich, Suzanne de (1891–1981)
• Docwra, Anne (ca. 1624–1710)
• Douglas, Mary (1921–2007)
• Dutton, Anne (ca. 1692–1765)
• Eddy, Mary Baker (1821–1910)
• Egeria (fl. 380s)
• Egerton, Francis (Harriet Catherine) (1800–1866)
• Elaw, Zilpha (b. 1790, fl. 1846)
• Elisabeth of Schönau (1129–65)
• Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
• Eudocia AugustaAelia (ca. 400–460)
• Evans, Katherine (ca. 1618–92), and Sarah Cheevers (Chevers) (ca. 1608–ca. 1664)
• Fell, Margaret Askew (1614–1702)
• Fonte, Moderata (1555–92)
• Francis, Ann (1738–1800)
• Gertrude the Great (Gertrud von Helfta) (ca. 1256–1302)
• Gibson, Margaret Dunlop (1843–1920), and Agnes Smith Lewis (1843–1926)
• Goff, Beatrice Laura (1903–98)
• Gott, Dorothy Newberry (1747/48–1812)
• Grimké, Sarah (1792–1873), and Angelina Grimké Weld (1805–79)
• Grumbach, Argula von (1492–ca. 1563/68)
• Guyart, Marie (Marie of the Incarnation) (1599–1672)
• Guyon, Jeanne-Marie de Chesnoy (1648–1717)
• Habershon, Ada Ruth (1861–1918)
• Hadewijch of Antwerp (fl. 1250s)
• Hale, Sarah (1788–1879)
• Hall, Sarah (Ewing) (1761–1830)
• Hanaford, Phebe Ann (Coffin) (1829–1921)
• Hands, Elizabeth (bap. 1746–1815)
• Hayward, Amey (fl. 1699)
• Hemans, Felicia (1793–1835)
• Herbert, Mary Sidney (1561–1621)
• Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179)
• Hopton, Susanna (1627–1709)
• Houghton, Louise Seymour (1838–1920)
• Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (ca. 935–ca. 975)
• Hume, Sophia Wigington (1702/3–74)
• Hussey, Mary Inda (1876–1952)
• Hutchinson, Anne (1591–1643)
• Hutchinson, Lucy (1620–81)
• Jackson, Rebecca Cox (1795–1871)
• Jacobs, Berta (Sister Bertken) (1426/27–1514)
• Jameson, Anna Brownell (1794–1860)
• Jonas, Regina (1902–44)
• Juana Inés de laCruz (Sister) (1651–95)
• Julian of Norwich (ca. 1342–ca. 1416)
• Kempe, Margery (1373–1438)
• Kenyon, Kathleen M. (1906–78)
• Kirschbaum, Charlotte von (1899–1975)
• Konttinen, Helena (1871–1916)
• Lanyer, Aemilia (1569–1645)
• Leade, Jane (1624–1704)
• Lee, Jarena (1783–ca. 1849)
• Leibowitz, Nehama (1905–97)
• Livermore, Harriet (1788–1868)
• Lock, Anne Vaughan (1534–ca. 1602)
• Macrina the Younger (ca. 330–379)
• Magnus, Katie (1844–1924)
• Makin, Bathsua (ca. 1600–after 1675)
• Marcella (ca. 327–410)
• Marguerite deNavarre (Marguerite de Valois, d’Angoulême; Margeret of) (1492–1549)
• McAuley, Catherine (1778–1841)
• Mears, Henrietta C. (1890–1963)
• Mechthild of Hackeborn (von Hackeborn) (1240–98)
• Mechthild of Magdeburg (von Magdeburg) (ca. 1208–ca. 1282/94)
• Melania the Elder (ca. 340–ca. 410)
• Meyer, Lucy Rider (1849–1922)
• Montgomery, Helen Barrett (1861–1934)
• Morata, Olympia (ca. 1526/27–55)
• More, Gertrude (1606–33)
• More, Hannah (1745–1833)
• Murray, Judith Sargent (1751–1820)
• Murry, Ann (ca. 1755–ca. 1816)
• Narducci da Paradiso, Domenica (1473–1533)
• Nightingale, Florence (1820–1910)
• Nogarola, Isotta (1418–66)
• Palmer, Phoebe (1807–74)
• Parr, Katherine (1512–48)
• Paula (347–404)
• Penn-Lewis, Jessie (1861–1927)
• Petersen, Johanna Eleonora (1644–1724)
• Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart (1844–1911)
• Porete, Marguerite (Porette or Margaret Porete; of Hainaut) (d. 1310)
• Proba, Faltonia Betitia (ca. 320–ca. 370)
• Pulci, Antonia (1452/54–1501)
• Ramabai, Pandita (1858–1922)
• Roberts, R. (ca. 1728–88)
• Roper, Margaret More (1505–44)
• Rossetti, Christina Georgina (1830–94)
• Rowe, Elizabeth Singer (1674–1737)
• Ruoti, Maria Clemente (1609/10–90)
• Sayers, Dorothy Leigh (1893–1957)
• Schimmelpenninck, Mary Anne (1778–1856)
• Schurman, Anna Maria van (1607–78)
• Scott, Mary (1751–93)
• Sengers, Justitia (fl. 1585)
• Simpson, Mary E. (ca. 1821–84)
• Smith, Amanda Berry (1837–1915)
• Smith, Elizabeth (1776–1806)
• Smith, Julia Evelina (1792–1886)
• Smith, Louise Pettibone (1887–1981)
• Southard, Mabel Madeline (1877–1967)
• Southcott, Joanna (1750–1814)
• Sowernam, Ester (fl. 1615–17)
• Speght, Rachel (ca. 1597–ca. 1661)
• Spurrell, Helen (1819–91)
• Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1815–1902)
• Starr, Lee Anna (1853–1937)
• Stewart, Maria W. Miller (1803–79)
• Stoddart, Jane T. (1863–1944)
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811–96)
• Sullivan, Kathryn Lois (1905–2006)
• Tarabotti, Arcangela (1604–52)
• Teresa of Avila (1515–82)
• Thérèse of Lisieux (1873–97)
• Tonna, Charlotte Elizabeth (1790–1846)
• Tornabuoni, Lucrezia (ca. 1427–82)
• Trimmer, Sarah (1741–1810)
• Truth, Sojourner (née Isabella Baumfree) (ca. 1791–1883)
• Tucker, Charlotte Maria (A. L. O. E.) (1821–93)
• Warner, Susan Bogert (1819–85), and Anna Bartlett Warner (1827–1915)
• Wedgwood, (Frances) Julia (1833–1913)
• Wesley, Susanna (1669–1742)
• Wharton, Anne (1659–85)
• White, Ellen Harmon (1827–1915)
• Wild, Laura Huldah (1870–1959)
• Willard, Frances Elizabeth (1839–98)
• Witter, Mary L. T. (1818–ca. 1900)
• Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759–97)
• Wordsworth, Elizabeth (1840–1932)
• Yonge, Charlotte Mary (1823–1901)
• Zell, Katharina Schütz (ca. 1498–1562)
• List of Entries
• Chronological List of Women Biblical Interpreters