Anna Maria van Schurman
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Standard Name: Schurman, Anna Maria van
Birth Name: Anna Maria van Schurman
Nickname: The Tenth Muse
Utrecht, became not only a living proof of women's talents and capacity for education, as equal to those of men, but also a public advocate for opportunities for women to develop their God-given capacity. Later, as a leader of the religious sect of the
, she renounced worldly learning and wrote only devotional works. Throughout her life she wrote letters in which she records the life of her mind and the development of her opinions.
, living in seventeenth-century Timeline
Texts
Schurman, Anna Maria van. Dissertatio, de ingenii mulienbris ad doctrinam, & meliores litteras aptitudine. Editor Beverwyck, Johan van, ex officina Elseviriana, 1641.
Schurman, Anna Maria van. Eukleria seu melioris partis electio. ex officina Cornelii van der Meulen, 1685, 2 vols.
Schurman, Anna Maria van. The Learned Maid; or, Whether a Maid may be a Scholar?. Translator Barksdale, Clement, John Redmayne, 1659.