MA
's tract or pamphlet Moderation Truly Stated was published, with no name or pseudonym on the title-page. She wrote it to confute the dissenting minister James Owen
's Moderation a Vertue, 1703, as...
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Mary Astell
In the extended title MA
calls herself moderate, dutiful, and loyal, ironically insisting that she is not Mr. L—y, or any other Furious Jacobite whether Clergyman or Layman.
Astell, Mary. The First English Feminist. Editor Hill, Bridget, St Martin’s Press, 1986.
