In contradistinction to the editing of early modern male writers, editing early modern women writers is a relatively recent phenomenon: only in the 1980s and 1990s did this disciplinary development commence in earnest. In the 1980s and 1990s, the critical landscape changed as early modern women’s writings came newly into the spotlight and primary texts became urgently needed. From the beginning, the general absence of editorial histories or traditions has meant that editing early modern women is a markedly different project to that of editing men. This entry begins with an overview of the ways in which, over the past forty or so years, scholars of early modern women’s writing have grappled with the unprecedented task of editing early modern women. It examines the trends and problems associated with the theory and practice of textual editing as it has been deployed in relation to early modern women writers in order to suggest that the field has now come of age. Today, the editing of early modern women’s writing is a scholarly discipline in its own right, one which possesses its own debates, distinctions, and initiatives, and one which enthusiastically encompasses digital technologies. The second half of this entry surveys the rapidly expanding range of formats and editorial versions through which early modern women’s writing can be read and accessed and argues that it is hard to imagine a livelier and more exciting area of scholarly enquiry.