Astell, Mary, The Christian Religion, as Professed by a Daughter of the Church of England (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: Toronto, 24), ed.
Especially interesting is how Knights draws comparisons between Sarah Cowper and other politically oriented women writers of the period such as Mary
Astell, Mary Chudleigh, and Mary Wollstonecraft.
Astell, Mary. "Some Reflections Upon Marriage." Mary Astell: Political Writings.
Astell, Mary. A Serious Proposal to the Ladies: Parts I & II.
A comprehensive review of eight women philosophers: Hildegard of Bingen, Anne Conway, Mary
Astell, Mary Wollstonecraft, Harriet Taylor Mill, Edith Stein, Simone Weil, and Simone de Beauvoir.
By reading social contract theory alongside representations of the domestic sphere by authors such as Mary
Astell, Mary Davys, Samuel Richardson, Eliza Haywood, and Frances Sheridan, Thompson (English, Northwestern U.) shows how these writers confront women's paradoxical status as both contractual agents and naturally subject wives.
Astell, Mary. A Serious Proposal to the Ladies for the Advancement of their True and Greatest Interest.
The collection provides a broad survey of women speakers that includes Aspasia, Christine de Pisan, Mary
Astell, Mary Wollstonecraft, Margaret Fuller, Ida B.
The authors of this collection, one of them now deceased, provide a broad survey of women speakers which includes Aspasia, Christine de Pisan, Mary
Astell, Mary Wollstonecraft, Margaret Fuller, Ida B.