Jane Anger
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her name. It is a contribution to the querelle des femmes (debate about women) which for generations pitted attacks on women with defences of them. Women were a favourite topic for academic disputation; sometimes the same polemicist would argue on each side in turn.
may have been an actual woman; or the text that was published in this name in 1589 may have been written by a man. There is no doubt of the interest and value of the feminist polemic (in verse as well as prose) which bears - BirthName: Jane Anger
Biography
's birth date is unknown. It might be surmised from her text that she was no longer a young woman, and therefore was likely born some time during the 1550s.
She does not mention her education, but she was clearly a scholar.