MA
's uncle Ralph Astell
died; this was the date he was buried.
Ancestry.co.uk. http://www.ancestry.co.uk.
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Astell
MA
had a bachelor uncle, the Rev. Ralph Astell
, a published poet, who was an important influence on her early development.
Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press, 1986.
53, 74
Presumably he became an even more significant figure in her life...
Instructor
Mary Astell
MA
never attended school. Apart from sewing and the Bible, she was also taught theology and philosophy (of the school of the Cambridge Platonists, like Anne Conway
's friend Henry More
) by her uncle...
