Westonia: Selected Works of Elizabeth Jane Weston

• Preface
• Introduction
• The Purpose of This Edition
• The Life of Elizabeth Jane Weston
• Weston’s Works & This Edition
• Weston’s World: Prague c. 1600 CE
• Weston’s Neo-Latinity
• Weston’s Meters
• A Note on the Vocabulary & Commentary 
• Bibliography & Further Reading 
• Selections from the Works of Elizabeth Jane Weston, with Running Vocabulary & Commentary
• Appendix 1: List of Works Included in this Edition
• Appendix 2: Important People in the Westonia
• Appendix 3: Glossary of Frequently Repeated Words in the Westonia  &Words in DCC Latin Core 

Elizabeth Jane Weston (1581-1612) was born in England, but spent most of her life in the intellectual hub of early-modern Europe: the imperial court of Rudolph II in Prague. She is remarkable for her determination to work professionally as a poet and to publish her writings, a path not generally open to women of the time. Her numerous Latin poems and letters were widely read and admired, both within the court and across the informal “republic of letters” that stretched across Europe. Although she became one of the most successful women poets in the history of Latin, her works have long been inaccessible to students in the absence of editions meant for the classroom. This volume presents, for the first time, a collection of Weston’s works in the original Latin alongside aids to her vocabulary and grammar.