Helen H. Reed is Emeritus Professor of the State University of New York at Oneonta, where she taught, among other subjects, Spanish Golden-Age literature, culture and history. She has published a monograph on the picaresque novel, The Reader in the Picaresque Novel (1984), and various articles on Lazarillo de Tormes, Guzmán de Alfarache, the Relaciones of Antonio Pérez, and different texts of Cervantes. In recent years she has devoted most of her time to the study of women in Golden-Age Spain, writing articles on the Princess of Éboli, Saint Teresa, and Catalina de Cardona. With Trevor Dadson she has published Epistolario e historia documental de Ana de Mendoza y de la Cerda, princesa de Éboli (2013), a collection of the Princess’s letters —autograph or signed by her— as well as legal documents, many of them unknown and previously unpublished.