Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press, 1986.
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Friends, Associates | Mary Astell | Her closest friends were the unmarried Lady Betty Hastings
and Lady Catherine Jones
, and the widow Lady Coventry
. Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press, 1986. 243 |
Friends, Associates | Anne Finch | AF
enjoyed personal friendships with a number of distinguished men, among them Bishop Thomas Ken
. She valued female friendship very highly; women friends figure prominently in her poetry. Lady Catherine Jones
, to whom... |
Textual Production | Anne Finch | AF
wrote a religious poem for the occasion, addressed to her friend Lady Catherine Jones
(who was also a friend of Mary Astell
). Finch, Anne. The Anne Finch Wellesley Manuscript Poems: A Critical Edition. McGovern, Barbara and Charles H. HinnantEditors , University of Georgia Press, 1998. 126ff |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Astell | 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 |
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