Helena Taylor is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Classics and French Studies at the University of Exeter, UK. She is the author of Ovid in French: Reception by Women from the Renaissance to the Present (2023), Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France (2023), and The Lives of Ovid in Seventeenth-Century French Culture (2017). She is the co-editor of Women and Querelles in Early Modern France (2021) and she has published a number of articles on early modern women’s classical reception.