Women Writing Antiquity

Considers classical reception in the works of women writers of the long seventeenth century in France to demonstrate how their engagements with the literature and traditions of classical antiquity were connected with the fashioning of literary identities and the production of knowledge.

Helena Taylor is an Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Exeter, where she previously held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. She is the author of The Lives of Ovid in Seventeenth-Century French Culture (OUP, 2017), and co-editor, with Fiona Cox, of Ovid in French: Reception by Women from the Renaissance to the Present (OUP, 2023), and, with Kate Tunstall, of a special issue of Romanic Review entitled Women and Querelles in Early Modern France (2021).