Jane Anger

01 January 1559 - 01 January 1589

JA 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 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.

BirthName: Jane Anger

Milestones

1589

There was published a satirical seventeen-page feministpolemic, printed in black-letter: Jane Anger her Protection for Women.

Black letter is a font or typeface, another name in this context for gothic.

Anger, Jane. Jane Anger her Protection for Women. Richard Jones and Thomas Orwin, 1589.

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Biography

JA '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.