Women Latin Poets: Language, Gender, and Authority from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century - Paperbackby Jane Stevenson (Author) Women Latin Poets addresses women's relationship to culture between the first century B. C. and the eighteenth century A. D. by studying women's poetry in Latin. Based entirely on original archival research in twelve countries, Stevenson recovers an aspect of history often deemed not to exist: women who achieved public recognition in their own time, sometimes to a startling extent. Presenting, often for the first time, the