Collection of written portaits of female writers and poets. A.o. Hildegard von Bingen, Christine de Pizan, Madeleine de Scudéry, Mary Wollstonecraft, Germaine de Staël, Rahel Varnhagen, Bettina von Arnim, George Sand, Jane Austin, the Brontë sisters, Božena Nemcová, Harriet Beecher-Stowe, Johanna Spyri, Beatrix Potter, Selma Lagerlöf, Astrid Lindgren, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Miles Franklin, Virginia Woolf, Tania Blixen, Else Lasker-Schüler, Milena Jesenská, Anna Achmatova, Agatha Christie, Erika Mann, Ingeborg Bachmann, Sylvia Plath, Elsa Morante, Irène Némirovsky, Anne Frank, Sophie Scholl, Lilli Jahn, Dorothy Parker, Carson McCullers, Marguerite Yourcenar, Anaïs Nin, Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Duras, Françoise Sagan, Doris Lessing, Paula Fox, Toni Morrison, Assia Djebar, Isabel Allende, Zeruya Shalev, Arundhati Roy, George Eliot.
This publication explores the role of women as agents of diplomacy in the trans-Atlantic world since the early modern age. Chapters cover a wide range of geographical contexts, including Europe, Russia, Britain and the United States, and trace the diversity of women’s activities and the significance of their contributions. Through a selection of case studies, the book throws into new perspective the operations of political power in local and national domains, bridging and at times reconceptualising the relationship of the private to the public.