Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Nathaniel Highmore
Standard Name: Highmore, Nathaniel
Used Form: N. Highmore
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N. Highmore
in The History of Generation argued that men's seed (sperm) was spiritualized & subtile, while women's was cruder and less digested, from a cruder matter, by lesse perfect Organs.
Mendelson, Sara Heller, and Patricia Crawford. Women in Early Modern England, 1550-1720. Clarendon Press, 1998.