She also maintained friendships, often by correspondence, with learned men, many of them in the church. Besides Sancroft
, her most important friend of this kind was Norris.
Textual Production
Mary Astell
MA
presented Archbishop Sancroft
, in gratitude for financial help, a hand-sewn booklet of her unpublished poems.
Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press, 1986.
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Wealth and Poverty
Mary Astell
London, however, was a tough nut to crack. Before long she found herself destitute, and (having already pawned her clothes) she appealed for help to William Sancroft
, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press, 1986.
