In summary, this is a positive, inclusive, wide-ranging collection which challenges the idea of the history of classical scholarship being inherently masculinised, and foregrounds the way in which women have contributed to the field. It sits alongside the ongoing feminist project of writing women back in history generally, and complements the exciting work on gender being done in Classics. Uncovering our 'foremothers' continues to authorise women's purchase on the field and serves as an act of both assimilation and inspiration.
Linda Grant, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
an enterprisingly international collection, celebrating the struggles and successes of women intellectuals from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.
Mary Beard, Times Literary Supplement
For researchers invested in tracing the histories of women, or 'unsealing the fountain' of knowledge about their lives, this book is a revelation. Collecting and analyzing what we know about women scholars who translated, wrote about, and promoted classical texts from various cultural locations in Europe, the book contributes in significant and concrete ways to debates about how to understand the role of women in shaping European learned culture.
Cora Fox,Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Rosie Wyles and Edith Hall ... are eager to rediscover and bring to the light the contribution of many women to the discipline of Classics.
Marco Formisano, Thersites