An essay in defence of the female sex in which are inserted the characters of a pedant, a squire, a beau, vertuoso, a poetaster, a city-critick, &c. in a letter to a lady / written by a lady.

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An essay in defence of the female sex in which are inserted the characters of a pedant, a squire, a beau, vertuoso, a poetaster, a city-critick, &c. in a letter to a lady / written by a lady.
Author name: Astell, Mary, 1668-1731.
EEBO ID: 12129518 Date: 1697 Bib name / number: Wing / A4060
Copy from: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
UMI Coll. / reel no.: Early English Books, 1641-1700 / 756:02 Physical Description: [33], 148, [4] p., 1 leaf of plates.
Imprint: London : Printed for A. Roper ..., and R. Clavel ..., 1697.
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[Edition statement:] The third edition with additions.
Attributed to Mary Astell. cf. BM.
"The contents" [i.e. index]: p.[1]-[4] at end.
Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
Subject/s:

Women -- Social conditions.
Women -- History.

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On the attribution of this item to Judith Drake (fl. 1696-1707), see the articles listed under Suggested Reading below.

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See also Wing A4058 (An essay in defence of the female sex, 1696) and Wing A4059 (An essay in defence of the female sex, 1696), which can be found in EEBO here and here.

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Devereaux, Johanna, '"Affecting the shade": Attribution, authorship, and anonymity in An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex', Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 27, nr 1 (2008), 17–37, Project MUSE <http://muse.jhu.edu/>.

 

Smith, Hannah, 'English "feminist" writings and Judith Drake’s An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex (1696).' The Historical Journal 44 (2001), 727–747.

 

Tooley, Brenda, '"Like a false renegade": The ends and means of feminist apologetics in A dialogue concerning women and An essay in defence of the female sex', The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 36 (1995), 157–177.

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