In 2016, with Dr Rosie Wyles of the University
of Kent and a team of international scholars, Edith
published Female Classical Scholars from the Renaissance
to Jacqueline de Romilly.
Here are some of the women it documents and
celebrates, with additions gratefully received by emailing Edith
@edithhall.co.uk
Luisa Sigea (1522-1560), poet who
taught classics at the court of Maria of Portugal.
Lucy
Hutchinson (1620–1681), probably the first person ever to translate
Lucretius into English
Elizabeth Carter (1717 –
1806), translator of Epictetus, whom Dr Johnson called the best
Greek scholar in England.
Clotilde Tambroni (1758 – 1817), the first woman
ever to hold a Chair of Greek, at the University of
Bologna.
Jacqueline de Romilly (1913
- 2010), expert on Thucydides and Greek society, and the first
woman nominated to the College de France.
Olga
Freidenberg (1890 – 1955), the first woman to gain a
doctorate in Classical Philology at Leningrad University, expert on
the ancient novel.
