Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Damaris Masham | Her mother, born Damaris Cradock, was a widow with several children from her first marriage (three sons and a daughter—who was also, confusingly, called Damaris) when she married DM
's father. From her second marriage... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Thomas | Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000. 152 |
Leisure and Society | Aphra Behn | St Hilda's College
, Oxford, holds a portrait by Mary Beale
, the most successful woman artist of her day, which has been thought to represent Behn. Scholar Maureen E. Mulvihill
discussed (with illustrations)... |