Apology for the Woman Writing and Other Works (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe)

"Among that distinct, but often distinguished, minority who spoke with the "other voice" in early modern Europe-that is, in opposition to the dominant discourse of misogyny-one would be hard-pressed to identify another figure at once as versatile, as prolific, and as thoroughly committed to her particular sense of mission as Marie le Jars de Gournay, whose voice was insistently heard on the French literary scene over a period of roughly fifty years (from the early 1590s, to the early 1640s)."