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English feminist writer (1666-1731)
Also known as: Мэри Эстел, ماري آستل, メアリ・アステル, 瑪麗·阿斯特爾, Эстел, Эстел, Мэри
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Mary Wollstonecraft1759–1797ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetArgues for women's rational education and moral equality in polemical prose that extends Astell's feminist reasoning. (AI reason)
- John Norris1657–1711ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
Writes Malebranchean Christian Platonist philosophy on divine love, the subject of his correspondence with Astell. (AI reason)
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne1617–1673ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetCombines natural philosophy with bold arguments about women's intellectual capacities in seventeenth-century English prose. (AI reason)
- Bathsua Makin1612–1673ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
Her essay on reviving the ancient education of gentlewomen parallels Astell's proposal for women's learning. (AI reason)
Catharine Trotter1674–1749ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetWrites rationalist moral philosophy and theological defenses from a woman philosopher's perspective of the same era. (AI reason)
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- François Poullain de la Barre1647–1723ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
Applies Cartesian reasoning to argue for the equality of the sexes, a key intellectual parallel to Astell. (AI reason)
- Mary Chudleigh1656–1710ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
Her verse and essays critique marital subjection and urge women's self-cultivation in Astell's spirit. (AI reason)
- Anne Conway1631–1679ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
Develops a religious Platonist metaphysics, appealing to readers of early modern women's philosophy. (AI reason)
Catharine Macaulay1731–1791ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetHer letters on education argue for equal rational training of the sexes in eighteenth-century polemical prose. (AI reason)
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- Mary Astell and John Norris (2004)
- Serious proposal to the ladies, for the advancement of their true and greatest interest (1694)
- The first English feminist (1986)
- Reflexionen und Vorschläge (2000)
- The Christian religion as profes'd by a daughter of the Church of England