Mary Astell
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Born January 1, 1666
Died January 1, 1731 (65 years old)
Newcastle upon Tyne, Kingdom of Great Britain
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Moderation truly stated, or, A review of a late pamphlet entitul'd Moderation a vertue
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Serious proposal to the ladies, for the advancement of their true and greatest interest
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Mary Astell's A Serious Proposal to the Ladies is one of the most important and neglected works advocating the establishment of women's academies. Its reception was so controversial that Astell responded with a lengthy sequel, also in this volume. The cause of great notoriety, Astell's Proposal was imitated by Defoe in his "An Academy for Women," parodied in the Tatler, satirized on the stage, plagiarized by Bishop Berkeley, and later mocked by Gilbert and Sullivan in Princess Ida. (Publisher description, 2002 edition. From amazon.com page.)
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Jean François Lyotard, Thomas Aquinas, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Mary Astell, Joseph Priestley, John Locke, Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, James Mill, Simone de Beauvoir, Augustine of Hippo, King James VI and I, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mary Wollstonecraft, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Richard Cobden, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benjamin Constant, Thomas Paine, Denis Diderot, David Hume, John Milton, Henry St. John Viscount Bolingbroke, Samuel Johnson
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