She continued throughout her life to expand her educational horizons, especially in the same areas of philosophy and theology. She made a special study of René Descartes
, and when John Norris
introduced her to...
Cultural formation
Mary Astell
MA
was a middle-class Englishwoman with strong High Anglican
and Tory opinions. At the same time, her sustained and intense application to the issue of women's status puts her squarely in the category of early...
Cultural formation
Elizabeth Thomas
She was a Cartesian in philosophy, and an Anglican
in religion (though the influence of her Dissenting grandmother caused her an attack of doctrinal panic over predestination at the age of fifteen). She says she...
Anthologization
Anna Maria van Schurman
AMS
amassed quite a bibliography of printed work before she was fifty, mostly in Latin. In 1636 she wrote, by invitation, a celebratory ode for the opening of the new University of Utrecht
. Her...
