Sabine Doff, Giovanni Iamartino and Rachel Mairs - Researching women as teachers and learners of languages. An introduction 1 Rory G. Critten - French lessons in late-medieval England: The role of women 2 Raf Van Rooy - "Lend me your apt ears in silence": Ippolita Maria Sforza in Bonino Mombrizio's verse grammar of Greek (ca. 1465) 3 Helena Sanson - Learning languages for marriage: The linguistic experience of aristocratic women in Europe (1500-1800) 4 Ariane Ruyffelaert - The role of women in reflection on French grammar and the teaching of the French language 5 Ulrike Krampl - Gender in language learning and teaching in eighteenth-century Paris: A socio-historical view 6 Giovanni Iamartino - Young Hetty Thrale and her master of languages - learning Italian between fiction and real life in eighteenth-century England 7 Sabine Doff - Teaching living languages as political statement: Female teachers in nineteenth-century Germany 8 Alena A. Fidlérová - Teaching French at the first municipal higher girls' schools in Bohemia (1860s to 1870s) 9 Polina Shvanyukova - Writing a gendered history of English language teaching in Italy, 1861-1922 10 Etain Casey - Female English language teachers and learners at the University of London Holiday Course 1906-1955 11 Rachel Mairs - Singara Devi Chenapa - Mersha Chinnappa: Investigating a female author of a military Arabic phrasebook 12 Rachel Allan - "A day's work at washing": A corpus-based analysis of female-authored English teaching manuals for immigrants in the Americanisation era 13 Irmina Kotlarska - Women's role in promoting English culture through English-language school education in Poland (first half of the twentieth century) 14 Paola Spazzali - Nuns teaching German in twentieth-century Milan: The Deutsche Schule Istituto Giulia.