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The Reformation · 1539
Epistle to Marguerite de Navarre
Marie Dentière · c. 1495–1561
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What it is
A former abbess turned reformer defends women's right to read and expound scripture, and criticises the Geneva ministers by name for their treatment of her.
Why it lasted
The most forthright argument for women's public teaching to come out of the Reformation, suppressed on publication and its printer arrested.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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