Primary Sources
While there are many excellent secondary sources on Englishwomen translators during the Reformation, reading the work of these women is essential for a researcher. While this page is not exhaustive, it offers some names of translators, and some volumes for beginning research on their work.
Some Women Translators
Anne Cooke Bacon
Sister of Elizabeth Hoby Russell
Mary More Roper
Translated her father, Thomas More
Lady Margaret Beaufort
Founder of Tudor dynasty
Lady Jane Lumley
Translator of Greek drama
Elizabeth Tudor
Future ruler of England
Mary Tudor
Future ruler of England
Anne Locke Prowse
Middle class proponent of Presbyterianism
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Paraphrased most of the Psalter into poetry
Catherine Parr
Queen of England
Potentiana Deacon
Anonymous member of Cambrai convent
Mary Percy
Anonymous member of Brussels Benedictines
Lady Elizabeth Hoby Russell
Sister of Anne Cooke Bacon
The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1500-1640
This series is published by Routledge, and provides accessible facsimiles of major texts by Englishwomen writers and translators. Below is a link to each part of the series along with the women translators in each set.
Katherine Parr, Margaret Tyler, Mary Sidney Herbert, Suzanne DuVerger
Anne Bacon Cooke, Margaret More Roper, Mary Basset, Elizabeth Tudor, Mary Tudor, Jane Owen, Anne Locke Prowse, Elizabeth Hoby Russell, Elizabeth Cary, Alexia Grey
Elizabeth Evelinge, Judith Man, Prudentiana Deacon