223 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 23 cm
OCLC
ocm01014301, ocm57702654
"These six essays are the result of an attempt to understand, mainly by the study of individual lives, the position of educated Englishwomen from the Restoration to the end of the first third of the eighteenth century"--Foreword.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Hannah Woolley -- A philosopher [Lord Halifax] and his daughter -- Locke's friend, Lady Masham -- Mary Astell -- Elizabeth Elstob -- The debt of women to Sir Richard Steele