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• Christian women saints -- Biography
• Christian women saints -- Byzantine Empire
• Christian women saints -- Drama
• Christian women saints -- Fiction
• Christian women saints -- France
• Christian women saints -- Italy
• Christian women saints -- Legends
• Christian women saints -- Poetry
• Catherine, of Siena, Saint, 1347-1380
• Clare, of Assisi, Saint, 1194-1253
• Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431
• Macrina, the Younger, Saint, approximately 330-379 or 380
• Margherita, da Cortona, Saint, 1247-1297
• Thérèse, de Lisieux, Saint, 1873-1897

• Christian saints, Women
• Women Christian saints

• Select Narratives of Holy Women, From the Syro-Antiochene of Sinai Palimpsest, As Written Above the Old Syriac Gospels by John the Stylite, of Beth-Mari-Qanun in A. D. 778 (2 volumes; 1900), ed. by Agnes Smith Lewis, contrib. by John the Stylite
  • first volume (Syriac text): page images at Google; US access only
  • second volume (translation): multiple formats at archive.org
• Virgin Saints and Martyrs (New York: T. Y. Crowell and Co., 1901), by S. Baring-Gould, illust. by F. Anger (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Women of the Cell and Cloister (London: Methuen and Co., c1913), by Ethel Rolt-Wheeler (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Life of St. Macrina, by Gregory of Nyssa, ed. by W. K. Lowther Clarke (HTML at tertullian.org)
• The Life of St. Frances of Rome, of Blessed Lucy of Narni, of Dominica of Paradiso, and of Anne De Montmorency, With An Introductory Essay on the Miraculous Life of the Saints (New York and Montreal: D. and J. Sadlier, ca.1885), by Georgiana Fullerton, contrib. by J. M. Capes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Le Sagre Metamorfosi Rappresentate Nelle Vite di Dieci Santissime Donne, Che Sotto l'Abito di Diverso Sesso, Giunsero ad un'alto Grado di Perfezione Evangelica (in Italian; Rome: Bernabo, 1710), by Anton Maria Bonucci (multiple formats at Google)

• Holy Women of Byzantium: Ten Saints' Lives in English Translation, ed. by Alice-Mary Maffry Talbot (PDF with commentary at doaks.org)

• The Sword of God: Jeanne d'Arc (Garden City, NY: Garden City Pub. Co., 1931), by S. Guy Endore (page images at HathiTrust)

• Leben der Heiligen Teresa von Jesus, von ihr Selbst Geschrieben: Nach der Neuesten Originalausgabe Don Vicente de la Fuente Professor der Theologie an der Universität zu Madrid, aus dem Spanischen übersezt von Ida Gräfin Hahn-Hahn (in German; Mainz: Kirchheim, 1867), by Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, ed. by Vicente de la Fuente, trans. by Ida Hahn-Hahn (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Dialogue of the Seraphic Virgin, by Saint Catherine of Siena (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• Life and Revelations of Saint Margaret of Cortona: Dedicated to Her Brothers and Sisters of the Third Order of Saint Francis (London: Burns and Oates; Dublin; M. H. Gill and Sons, 1883), by Giunta Bevegnati, trans. by F. M'Donogh Mahony, contrib. by J.-F.-O. Luquet
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Life of Saint Margaret of Cortona (Philadelphia: P. F. Cunningham and Son, 1888), by Antonio Francesco Giovagnoli (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Life and Legend of the Lady Saint Clare (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1910), trans. by Charlotte Balfour, contrib. by Francis Du Puis, Father Cuthbert, and Clare of Assisi
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Saint Joan (1924), by Bernard Shaw (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)

• At the Sign of The Reine Pédauque (definitive edition; New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1922), by Anatole France, trans. by Emilie Jackson, contrib. by William John Locke
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Joan of Arc (from the Complete Works of Mark Twain; New York: Harper and Bros., ca. 1924), by Mark Twain (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Noble Purpose Nobly Won: An Old, Old Story (second edition; London: A. Hall, Virtue, and Co., 1862), by Anne Manning (multiple formats at Google)
• The Queen Pedauque, by Anatole France, trans. by Jos. A. V. Stritzko, contrib. by James Branch Cabell (Gutenberg text)
• A Monk of Fife, by Andrew Lang
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at maidofheaven.com
• Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by Mark Twain
  • volume 1: Gutenberg text
  • volume 2: Gutenberg text
• Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (London: Chatto and Windus, 1896), by Mark Twain, illust. by Frank Vincent DuMond (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (with additional writings on Joan of Arc by Twain and associates), by Mark Twain (HTML with commentary at maidofheaven.com)

• The Sword of God: Jeanne d'Arc (Garden City, NY: Garden City Pub. Co., 1931), by S. Guy Endore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jeanne d'Arc (in French; Paris: Hachette et cie, 1911), by Gabriel Hanotaux
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Jeanne d'Arc: Her Life and Death, by Mrs. Oliphant
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML with commentary at maidofheaven.com
• Joan of Arc (c1893), by Ronald Sutherland Gower (illustrated HTML with commentary at maidofheaven.com)
• Joan of Arc (London: W. Rider and Son, 1921), by Richard Basil Ince (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Joan of Arc (first published 1896), by Francis C. Lowell (HTML with commentary at maidofheaven.com)
• Joan of Arc (originally published 1853), by Philip Henry Stanhope (HTML with commentary at maidofheaven.com)
• Joan, the Heroic Maiden (New York and Philadelphia: E. Ferrett and Co., 1846), by Alexandre Dumas, trans. by Louisa C. Ingersoll (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life of Joan of Arc (London and New York: John Lane, 1909), by Anatole France, trans. by Winifred Stephens Whale (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Maid of France: Being the Story of the Life and Death of Jeanne d'Arc (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1909), by Andrew Lang
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at maidofheaven.com
• Five Famous French Women (London et al.: Cassell, 1907), by Millicent Garrett Fawcett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• La Révolte du Conte de Warwick Contre le Roi Edward IV / Revolt of the Earl of Warwick Against King Edward IV, Now First Published From a MS. Preserved in the Public Library of Ghent; To Which is Added French Letter Concerning Lady Jane Gray and Queen Mary, Published From a Bruges MS. (in French, with English notes; London: Pub. for the Caxton Society by A. Black, 1849), ed. by J. A. Giles (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Third Gender and Aelfric's Lives of Saints (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, c2018), by Rhonda L. McDaniel (PDF at wmich.edu)

• The Life of Saint Katherine, by John Capgrave, ed. by Karen A. Winstead (HTML at Rochester)
• Middle English Marian Lyrics, ed. by Karen Saupe (HTML at Rochester)
• The Middle English Stanzaic Versions of the Life of Saint Anne (EETS original series #174; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1928), ed. by Roscoe Edward Parker (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Dialogue of the Seraphic Virgin, by Saint Catherine of Siena (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• Saint Catherine of Siena: A Study in the Religion, Literature and History of the Fourteenth Century in Italy (London: J. M. Dent and Co.; London: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1907), by Edmund G. Gardner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Saint Catherine of Siena As Seen in Her Letters, by Saint Catherine of Siena, ed. by Vida Dutton Scudder (Gutenberg text)

• The Life and Legend of the Lady Saint Clare (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1910), trans. by Charlotte Balfour, contrib. by Francis Du Puis, Father Cuthbert, and Clare of Assisi
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Life of St. Macrina, by Gregory of Nyssa, ed. by W. K. Lowther Clarke (HTML at tertullian.org)

• Life and Revelations of Saint Margaret of Cortona: Dedicated to Her Brothers and Sisters of the Third Order of Saint Francis (London: Burns and Oates; Dublin; M. H. Gill and Sons, 1883), by Giunta Bevegnati, trans. by F. M'Donogh Mahony, contrib. by J.-F.-O. Luquet
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Life of Saint Margaret of Cortona (Philadelphia: P. F. Cunningham and Son, 1888), by Antonio Francesco Giovagnoli (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Therese (Notre Dame, IN: Fides Publishers Assoc., c1960), by Dorothy Day (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leben der Heiligen Teresa von Jesus, von ihr Selbst Geschrieben: Nach der Neuesten Originalausgabe Don Vicente de la Fuente Professor der Theologie an der Universität zu Madrid, aus dem Spanischen übersezt von Ida Gräfin Hahn-Hahn (in German; Mainz: Kirchheim, 1867), by Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, ed. by Vicente de la Fuente, trans. by Ida Hahn-Hahn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse (based on the 8th edition of Soeur Therese of Lisieux (1922), with some supplementary material omitted), by Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, ed. by David McClamrock, trans. by Thomas N. Taylor (Gutenberg text)
• Quartet in Heaven (c1953), by Sheila Kaye-Smith (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

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