NIVEL AVANZADO: Restoration Women Writers

NIVEL AVANZADO: Escritoras de la Restauración

On Egerton's notion of an original freedom of women, "Moses, who first our freedom did rebuke..." —ver esta nota de Reflexiones de un primate.

 


Four women writers:

Margaret Fell Fox (1614-1702; wife of George Fox, founder of the Quakers)
______. Women's Speaking Justified, Proved and Allowed by the Scriptures. 1666.


Lucy Hutchison (b. 1620). Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson [1615-1674]. Pub. 1806.

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673)
_____. Poems and Fancies. 1653.
_____. Orations of Divers Sorts. 1662.
_____. Philosophical Letters: or, Modest Reflections upon some Opinions in Natural Philosophy. 1664.
_____. Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. With The Description of a New World, called the Blazing World. Scientific fantasy. 1666.
_____. The Life of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle. 1667.
_____. CCXI Sociable Letters. 1664.


Mary Astell (1666-1731)
_____. (Anon.) A Serious Proposal to the Ladies. 1694.
_____. (Anon.). Some Reflections upon Marriage. 1700.

"Mary Astell." Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Astell


A BBC audio on Mary Astell (In Our Time).