The competition, for the best poem on Time, was judged by Nancy Cunard
and Richard Aldington
. Cunard
called the winner a long poem, mysterious, obscure in parts, centered around Descartes
.
Cohn, Ruby. Back to Beckett. Princeton University Press.
viii
Cultural formation
Mary Astell
MA
was a middle-class Englishwoman with strong High Anglican
and Tory opinions. At the same time, her sustained and intense application to the issue of women's status puts her squarely in the category of early...
Education
Mary Astell
She continued throughout her life to expand her educational horizons, especially in the same areas of philosophy and theology. She made a special study of René Descartes
, and when John Norris
introduced her to...
Textual Features
Mary Astell
A Serious Proposal, part one, is the work where Astell proposes the setting up of female communities where single women could lead studious and religious lives unless or until they might wish to marry...