Women / Persons ~ P08493

Mary Astell

Alternate Names:

Mary Astell, The First English Feminist

Gender: Female

Life Dates: 12 November 1666 - 11 May 1731

Types:

Activist, Women's Rights
Educational founder, schoolmistress
English
Model of faith, piety
Philosopher
Writer, Nonfiction
Writer, Poetry

Note: died in Chelsea, London

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Biographies (6 Total)

George Fox and His Influences Upon the Women of His Day Author: Mabel Richmond Brailsford . Collection Title: Quaker Women, 1650-1690. 1915
Mary Astell Author: Ada Wallas . Collection Title: Before the Bluestockings. 1929
Mary Astell Author: George Ballard . Collection Title: Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain: Who Have Been Celebrated for Their Writings or Skill in the Learned Languages, Arts and Sciences. 1752
Mary Astell Author: Julia Kavanagh . Collection Title: Women of Christianity, Exemplary for Acts of Piety and Charity. 1852
Mary Astell Author: anon0002 . Collection Title: Eccentric Biography; or, Memoirs of Remarkable Female Characters, Ancient and Modern. Including Actresses, Adventurers, Authoresses, Fortune-Tellers, Gipsies, Dwarfs, Swindlers and Vagrants: Also Many Others who Have Distinguished Themselves by Their Chastity, Dissipation, Intrepidity, Learning, Abstinence, Credulity, &c., &c.: Alphabetically Arranged: Forming a Pleasing Mirror of Reflection to the Female Mind. Ornamented with Portraits of the Most Singular Characters in the Work. 1803
Mary Astell, an Ingenius Writer Author: anon0001 . Collection Title: Biographium faemineum: The Female Worthies; or, Memoirs of the Most Illustrious Ladies, of All Ages and Nations, who Have Been Eminently Distinguished for Their Magnanimity, Learning, Genius, Virtue, Piety, and Other Excellent Endowments...Containing (Exclusive of Foreigners) the Lives of above Fourscore British Ladies...Collected from History, and the Most Approved Biographers, and Brought Down to the Present Time. 1766