Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors - Introduction: Women, Professionalisation, and Patronage / Carme Font Paz and Nina Geerdink -- Women Authors' Reputation and Its Relationship to Money Earned: Some Early French Writers as Examples / Suzan van Dijk -- Words for Sale: Early Modern Spanish Women's Literary Economy / Nieves Baranda -- Fighting for Her Profession: Dorothe Engelbretsdatter's Discourse of Self- Defence / Marie Nedregotten Sørbø -- Writing for Patronage or Patronage for Writing? Two Case Studies in Seventeenth-Century and Post-Restoration Women's Poetry in Britain / Carme Font Paz -- Possibilities of Patronage: The Dutch Poet Elisabeth Hoofman and Her German Patrons / Nina Geerdink -- Between Patronage and Professional Writing. The Situation of Eighteenth Century Women of Letters in Venice: The Example of Luisa Bergalli Gozzi / Rotraud von Kulessa -- From Queen's Librarian to Voice of the Neapolitan Republic: Eleonora de Fonseca Pimentel / Irene Zanini-Cordi -- "[S] ome employment in the translating Way": Economic Imperatives in Charlotte Lennox's Career as a Translator / Marianna D'Ezio -- Beating the Odds: Sophie Albrecht (1756-1840), a Successful Woman Writer and Publisher in Eighteenth-Century Germany / Berit C.R. Royer -- Index.