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Mary Astell

Mary Astell was born in Newcastle upon Tyne on 12 November 1666. Her father was a conservative royalist Anglican who managed a local coal company. She was one of the first English women to advocate the idea that women were just as rational as men, and just as deserving of education.

A Deep Dive into Feminism: A 26-Book Collection - The Philanderer Votes for Women A Country Sweetheart Rose of Old Harpeth Labyrinth etc

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A Deep Dive into Feminism: A 26-Book Collection - The Philanderer Votes for Women A Country Sweetheart Rose of Old Harpeth Labyrinth etc

George Bernard Shaw, Maria Thompson Daviess, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Ellen Key, Alice Duer Miller, Mary Astell, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Marietta Holley, Julia Ward Howe, Elizabeth Robins, Ernest Belfort Bax, Raden Adjeng Kartini, Mary E. Bradley Lane, Alice Ilgenfritz Jones, Ella Merchant, Catherine H. Birney, Mary P. Lowe, Alcanoan O. Grigsby, Dora Russell, E. Fenwick, David M. Robinson, Helen R. Hull, Millicent Garrett Fawcett

A serious proposal to the Ladies for the advancement of their true and greatest interest - In Two Parts

A serious proposal to the Ladies for the advancement of their true and greatest interest - In Two Parts

Mary Astell

An essay in defence of the female sex - In which are inserted the characters of a pedant a squire a beau a vertuoso a poetaster a city-critick &c in a letter to a lady

An essay in defence of the female sex - In which are inserted the characters of a pedant a squire a beau a vertuoso a poetaster a city-critick &c in a letter to a lady

Mary Astell, Judith Drake