An essay in defence of the female sex

by active 1696-1707 Judith Drake, Mary Astell

EN·~2 hours·9 chapters

Chapters

9 total

Transcriber’s Note:

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AN ESSAY In Defence of the FEMALE SEX.

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To Her Royal Highness the Princess Anne of Denmark.

4:47

PREFACE.

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To the Most Ingenious Mrs. —— or her Admirable Defence of Her Sex.

3:25

The Reader is desir’d to excuse, and correct all Literal Escapes, and to amend the following thus.

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AN ESSAY In Defence of the Female Sex, &c.

2:29:18

THE CONTENTS.

2:40

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

1:01

Description

Authorship has been attributed to both Judith Drake and Mary Astell.

Details

Full title

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

Language

Duration

~2 hours (168K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2018-07-28

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Women

About the authors

active 1696-1707 Judith Drake

Best known for a sharp, witty defense of women’s intellect, this late 17th-century English writer pushed back against the lazy stereotypes of her age. Although little is known about her life, her surviving work still stands out for its confidence, humor, and clear-eyed argument.

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Mary Astell

1666–1731

A sharp, fearless thinker from late Stuart England, she argued that women deserved the same serious education as men and used wit to challenge the rules of marriage and society.

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