Astell, Mary(1666–1731)
Mary Astell was born November 12, 1666, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, into a family of coal merchants. This fact itself is interesting, since it means that she was a member of...
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Mary Astell is regarded as one of the earliest British feminists. In a time when women were seen as intellectually deficient by nature, she was one of the first thinkers to embrace Cartesian rationali...
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Faithfulness does not seem to be a common practice that men engage in during the English Restoration. In Some Reflections Upon Marriage Mary Astell purposes the idea that women should not marry an...
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Astell, Mary (1666-1731)
Mary Astell
