Astell was not above accepting financial help from her upper-class circle. Lady Betty Hastings
regularly paid her sums of money in her later years, and Lady Catherine Jones
, Lady Coventry
, and Elizabeth Hutcheson
Publishing
Elizabeth Elstob
Its full title is An English-Saxon Homily on the Birthday of St. Gregory
, Anciently used in the English-Saxon Church. Giving an Account of the Conversion of the English from Paganism to Christianity. It...
Occupation
Mary Astell
She did this on a subscription of £500, begun by Lady Betty Hastings
on 5 April with five guineas. The school was conducted in rooms borrowed from Chelsea Royal Hospital
, and most pupils were...
Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press.
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Lady Betty was a wealthy woman celebrated for her piety, intellectual accomplishments, and benefactions...
death
Mary Astell
MA
died at Chelsea near London, in the house of her friend Lady Betty Hastings
, of the effects of breast cancer, reported as a dropsy or swelling tympany.
Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press.