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Astell: Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
Mary Astell

Cambridge University Press, 1996

The writings of the High Church Tory pamphleteer Mary Astell (1666-1731) are a remarkable contribution to the constitutional debates that ushered in the modern democratic state. An interlocutor with Swift and Defoe, Astell was perhaps the first systematic critic of Locke's writings. Astell's political pamphlets Reflections upon Marriage, A Fair Way with the Dissenters, and An Impartial Enquiry into the Origins of Rebellion have never been ...

Mary Astell And John Norris: Letters Concerning The Love Of God (Early Modern Englishwoman: a Facsimile ...
Mary Astell, John Norris, ...

Ashgate Publishing, 2005

Given the progress made in recent years in recovering the writings of early modern women, one might expect that a complete set of the important works of Mary Astell (1666 - 1731) would have been reissued long before now. Instead, only portions of the thought of the 'First English Feminist' have reached a wide academic audience. This volume presents a critical and annotated edition of the correspondence between Astell and John Norris of Bemerton ...

A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (Pickering Women's Classics)

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Mary Astell

Pickering and Chatto Ltd, 2002

A Serious Proposal, parts 1 and 2
Mary Astell is one of the first European females to write directly on issues of philosophy, politics, and rhetoric; like other women writers she also writes about religion and morality, as she proposes the foundation of an educational/religious institution for single ladies. This book has complete editions of both books 1 and 2 of Astell's A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694, 1697), with ...