The First English Feminist: Reflections upon Marriage and Other Writings by Mary Astell

Politics & Social Sciences

Mary Astell

Women's Studies

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Some reflections upon marriage

Source Book Press

<p> Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies is one of the most important and neglected works advocating the establishment of women’s academies. Its reception was so controversial that Astell responded with a lengthy sequel, also in this volume. The cause of great notoriety, Astell’s Proposal was imitated by Defoe in his “An Academy for Women,” parodied in the Tatler, satirized on the stage, plagiarized by Bishop Berkeley, and later mocked by Gilbert and Sullivan in Princess Ida. </p>

A Serious Proposal to the Ladies

History

World

Broadview Press

<p>This volume contains the entire New Testament (RSV Catholic Edition) with short introductions to each of the four Gospels, Acts, Letters and Revelation. It is called a 'compact' edition because it runs to 756 pages as distinct from the 2400 pages in the Standard Edition of the Navarre Bible (New Testament in twelve volumes). This Bible's distinguishing feature is its notes/commentaries. In this volume they occupy about the same amount of space as the Biblical text. These notes try to provide doctrinal and ascetical explanations that flow from the biblical text itself and that are in line with the Church's understanding of it.</p>

The Navarre Bible

University of Navarra

Religion & Spirituality

Four Courts Pr Ltd

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