Scholar Karen King examines the evidence concerning women's important place in early Christianity. She draws a surprising new portrait of Mary Magdalene and outlines the stories of previously unknown early Christian women. (
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/first/women.html
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This is the prison diary of a young woman martyred in Carthage in 202 or 203 CE. The beginning and ending are related by an editor/narrator; the central text contains the words of Perpetua herself. (
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/maps/primary/perpetua.html
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