Mary Astell
✓ Source-basedfallingEnglish feminist writer (1666-1731)
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Mary Astell was an English proto-feminist author, philosopher, and rhetorician who advocated for equal educational opportunities for women. Astell is primarily remembered as one of England's inaugural advocates for women's rights and some commentators consider her to have been "the first English feminist".
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Title page from the third edition of A Serious Proposal![No portrait of Astell remains[14] but Joshua Reynolds' study for the portrait of a young woman (c. 1760-65) in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, was used as the cover illustration of The Eloquence of Mary Astell (2005) by Christine Mason Sutherland](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Reynold%27_Study_for_a_portrait.jpg)
No portrait of Astell remains[14] but Joshua Reynolds' study for the portrait of a young woman (c. 1760-65) in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, was used as the cover illustration of The Eloquence of Mary Astell (2005) by Christine Mason Sutherland
Cover page from 1706 edition of Reflections upon MarriageWriters from United Kingdom 6
About this person
Country
United KingdomCategory
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1666 to 1731 · aged 64
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25 languages
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