Women's Epic

• Sarah Fuller Flower Adams' 1841 Vivia Perpetua, a dramatic poem on the early Christian martyrs
• Sibilla Aleramo's well known Una Donna has been translated, and portions of the English A Woman are available; Il Passagio--her early work on "crossing"--is available as as a free ebook. Luci della mia sera (Lights of my Evening) I have not been able to locate online.
• Betti Alver's Lugu Valgest Varesest (Tale of the White Crow) is not online, but a brief description of her work as Soothsayer, Mother-of-song, and Divine Hooligan is. A derivative but engaging Myspace site for Alver, with plenty of images and some brief ecerpts of her work, is also available.
• "Margaret Atwood's The Journals of Susanna Moodie" R.P. Bilan provides a substantial introduction to Atwood's 1970 epic.
• Therese von Artner A fragment (d'Espagne's Tod) in German from her epic Die Schlacht bei Aspern, most of which appears to have been lost
• A selection from Claribel Alegria, (offline today) including bits of Luisa en el País de la Realidad. More information on her (in English) is available from Curbstone Press
• A brief essay on Betti Alver, the Estonian "mother of song," and author of Lugu valgest varesest or Tale of the White Crow, 1931
• A preview introduction and some of the Poems of Ava, the 12th century German poet, in Andrew Thornton's translation at Google Books. Other Women's Voices also provides a very brief description and links
• Joanna Baillie's 1849 Ahalya Baee at Google Books, and as plain text at the Internet Archive
• Adeline Johns-Putra provides a fine brief description of Baillie's epics in an entry for the Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era
• Ted Genoways reviews recent epic poetry, including Ellen Bryant Voigt's elegant Kyrie
• Gabrielle de Coignard The sixteenth century writer of Imitation de la victoire de judich
• Erinna's epigrams and the fragments of her hexameter Distaff are discussed in Snyder's excellent and accessible Woman and the Lyre.
• Moderata Fonte's 1581 Floridoro at Google Books; the Italian Women Writers site provides a brief biography, and links to the original Italian text. Her well known Worth of Women, though not an epic, is also available.
• Eliza S. Francis' 1815 Sir Wilibert de Waverly or the Bridal Eve.
• Eleanor Anne Porden Franklin's 1815 The Veils; or the Triumph of Constancy. Her Coeur de Lion is not yet available online.
• One of Maria V. Stanyukovich's brief essays providing a very good overview of the Ifugao hudhud, the epics of rice performed by women. In addition, some parts of her better known "Peacemaking Ideology in a Headhunting Society" are available in the Google Books version of Hitchcock's 2000 Hunters and Gathers in the Modern World
• A brief summary of the Hudhud (of Aliguyan)
• Brief news article on hudhud, including mythic origin, after the 2001 UNESCO adoption
• The Descent of Ishtar to the Underworld In Stephanie Dalley's fine translation (at Google Books)
• Kumulipo including not only Queen Liliokulani's 1897 translation of the epic Hawaiian Creation chant, but links to the Hawaiian version as well as Beckwith's 1951 translation
• An Idyl of Work, Lucy Larcom's 1875 epic of the New England textile mills
• Mabinogion Gutenberg etext of Lady Charlotte Guest's/Schreiber's famous translation
• Lucrezia Marinella Another powerful femininist writer of epic in early Modern Italy, best known for her Nobility and Excellence of Women
• Lucrezia Marinella's L'Enrico, somewhat inconveniently set up for reading, but there for my Italian readers.
• Sarah Wentworth Morton's Ouabi (1790), one of the earliest American epics based--however loosely--on Native American material.
• The Explorers Catherine Martin's 19th century Australian epic. A bit of it, with more context, is also given here
• E. M. Souville, "An Epic" Actually a shorter poem written for the Columbian Expo in 1892
• Isabella Valancy Crawford, Malcolm's Katie (193-245 in Collected Poems, 1905).
• Marjorie Perloff on Loy's Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose
• Mary Tighe's Psyche  Finally someone has brought an edition on-line 
• Medieval Women  The section of Labyrinth devoted specifically to women's lives and works
• The Blind Chatelaine comments on Samuel Butler's Authoress of the Odyssey and on Dalby's Rediscovering Homer
• Poetry of Anna Seward Called the "inventress of epic elegy" for her poems on Major Andre and others
• Aiken and Hemans Beth Seltzer's brief discussion of the recontextualization of women's experience
• The Victorian Women Writers Project The substantial and searchable collection, including the redoubtable Mathilde Blind.
• Sappho Page Teaching materials for Sappho
• Welcome to the Isle of Lesbos A place of art, culture, and learning for women-oriented women, including a wealth of women poets.
• Caroline Bowles Southey's collaboration with Robert Southey on the 1847 Robin Hood: A Fragment
• Poetry of Gertrude Stein
• Helen Maria Williams, Peru, A Poem: In Six Cantos Originally published in 1784, this lightly edited version is based on the 1786 Poems
• Ann Yearsley's Brutus: A Fragment (1796), a romantic retelling of the mythic British origin.
• Entire WWP Corpus: Table of Contents The grand Women Writer's Project at Brown University.