Broomhall asks whether women's experiences as authors changed when manuscript circulation gave way to the printed book as a standard form of publication. She broadens the concept of publication to include methods of scribal publication, through the circulation and presentation of manuscripts, and expands notions of authorship to incorporate a wide sample group of female writers and publishing experiences. .The study introduces a wide and rich range of unexamined sources on early modern women, using an extensive range of manuscripts and the entire corpus of women's printed texts in sixteenth-century France. The work presents a checklist of all known women's writings in printed texts, from prefaces and laudatory verse to editions of prose and poetry, between 1488 and 1599. This book constitutes the most comprehensive assessment of women's contribution to contemporary publishing yet available.