Women Alchemists and the Paracelsian Context in France and England

[Paul Ferguson]

"Medicine and theology were accepted concerns of early modern noble and gentlewomen, and also arenas within which Paracelsian alchemy developed. It is therefore not surprising to find that some educated women engaged actively in Paracelsian alchemy in both its spiritual-philosophical and medicinal aspects, although the extent of this engagement is only beginning to be fully explored."

Penny Bayer.

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/788018

[Paul Ferguson]

Another Penny Bayer work here:


Women's alchemical literature 1560-1616 in Italy, France, the Swiss Cantons and England, and its diffusion to 1660. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/71980/