Discover manuscripts written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Produced in association with the Perdita Project based at the University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University, the project seeks to rediscover early modern women authors who were “lost” because their writing exists only in manuscript form.

Nature and Scope

Find out more about The Perdita Project. Based at the University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University, Perdita, or “lost women” highlights the voices of early modern writers through their literary works.

Browse Documents

Examine the fascinating manuscript works of The Perdita Project.

Bibliographic Sources

Explore the bibliographic sources used in the compilation of the Perdita database as they relate to the manuscripts included in this collection.