Robert Whitehall

MM wrote, but did not publish, a poem To the most Ingenious Mr. Robert Whitehall , Fellow of Merton College in Oxon.

Her fuller title is The Womans Right Or Her Power in a Greater Equality to her Husband proved than is allowed or practised in England from misunderstanding some scriptures, and false rendring others from ye...

MM offers Jear for Jear in answer to Whitehall 's arguably insulting verse comment on the picture she had donated to the Bodleian Library: To the No Less Virtuous Than Ingenious M[ist]ris Mary More...

She dedicated it To all Ingenious and Vertuous Ladies, more especially to her Highness the Lady Mary , the future queen. Such ladies by this time included BM 's ex-pupils as well as prospective...

MM was a portrait-painter and copyist, who left paintings in her family. The only one of her visual works known to survive, heavily retouched, hangs in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. It was thought to...

MM 's arguments were somewhat rudely countered by Robert Whitehall in The Woman's Right Proved False, In which the True Right is easily discerned. He was, however, responsible for preserving MM 's text.

MM 's friends included, in London, a number of scientists or natural philosophers: inventor Robert Hooke (who often visited her, and with whom she discussed dreams), physician and collector Sir Hans Sloane , and scholar...