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From: "Andrea Vogel" <>
Subject: Huguenot Women Writers (1500s)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 09:52:14 -0800


Hello --

As part of the thread about honouring
Huguenot/Walloon women, I wanted to
draw attention to something I found while
trawling the web recently.
There is mention of an article here:
http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:19793517&refid=holomed_1
which is titled "Shouting down Abraham:
how sixteenth century Huguenot Women
found their voice". The article was
originally published in 1997 in
Rennaissance Quarterly which I'm
assuming is a journal or magazine of
some kind.

Here is what it says on the website
about this article (or perhaps it's an
excerpt from the article itself?):
"Huguenot women writers during the
16th century Calvinism period have often
been disregarded by Huguenot male
authors. Women were only identified
with household works and their capabilities
for writing were often overlooked. However,
these women writers were able to make
their voices heard as male writers faced
certain obstacles to self-expression.
Although few in number and troubled by
gender roles and scriptually-mandated
status, Huguenot women's works were
still able to influence literature by
describing a new relationship with the
scripture."

The frustrating thing is that this website
does not allow access to the full article
unless one is willing to give a credit card
number (even for the seven-day free trial
offer). Which I was not willing to do.
So I have no idea who these women
might have been. Does anyone out there
know? If so, please post to the list about
it. I think everyone will agree that this would
be a perfect time to acknowledge these
Huguenot women writers. Regards, Andrea


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