Before the Bluestockings
Wallas, Ada
| Publication Date | 1930 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Macmillan, |
| Binding | Hardback |
| Condition | Good copy |
| SKU | 26613 |
| Notes | Blue cloth is discoloured to edges and rubbed to points. Tanned to spine especially to printed paper label which is edge worn. Text is clean. Binding is sound. |
Description
Hardback. 223pp. Essyas studying the intellectual life of five Englishwomen who lived between the Restoration and the first third of the 18th century: Hannah Woolley (1622 – ?1675, wrote on household management),, George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax and his daughter Lady Elizabeth Savile (1677-1708), Lady Masham (Damaris Cudworth Masham 1659-1708 and friend of John locke), Mary Astell (1666 – 1731, wrote on women’s rights) Elizabeth Elstob (1683 – 1756, scholar of Anglo-Saxon). There is a sixth essay on the debt of women to Sir Richard Steele of The Spectator.. Black and white frontis. Indexed.
