Feminine anthologies: Female authors of the early modern period in the collections of the 18th and 19th centuries

Feminine periodicals and collections for women abounded in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Among these male-led endeavors, two separate projects for anthologies of female writers emerged. In them, Louise-Félicité de Kéralio and Louise d’Alq gathered extracts of work by women that they accompanied with comments on feminine writing. The choice of texts and the partly modernized values underpinning these collections gave new impetus to the literary history of their time.