約700名もの有名無名の女性たちの歴史に光を当てる、専門研究者にとっても貴重な情報満載の人名事典。芸術家、犯罪者、宗教者、政治家など、多彩なカテゴリの女性たちが対象。Poets, princesses or pirates, the women of power and agency found in these pages are indeed worth knowing and this volume will introduce many female figures to even the most established scholars in early modern studies. Rather than using the conventional alphabetical format of the standard biographical encyclopedia, this volume is divided into categories of women.