MA
dated her preface 17 July 1694, and published as the Author of the Serious Proposal to the Ladies—a mark of confidence in a book only just appearing. These letters had been, as the...
Textual Production
Damaris Masham
Editor Germaine Greer
and her collaborators suspect on grounds of style that DM
is the author of a poem included in John Norris
's Collection of Miscellanies: Consisting of Poems, Essays, Discourses and Letters, Occasionally...
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Damaris Masham
The attribution to her in some quarters of Astell
's Serious Proposal (published in July 1694 as by a Lover of her Sex) may have made DM
wish to distance herself from Astell. Here...
