Before the bluestockings
By: by Ada Wallas (Mrs. Graham Wallas)
Publisher: G. Allen & Unwin ltd.
Published: 1929
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Women -- Great Britain.; Women -- Biography.; Women -- History and condition of women.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "An attempt to understand, mainly by the study of individual lives, the position of educated Englishwomen from the Restoration" [to ca.1735]. Includes Hannah Woolley ; Elizabeth Savile Stanhope Damaris Cudworth Masham (Lady Masham) ; Mary Astell ; Elizabeth Elstob.
Notes: "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.
Table of contents: title: Hannah Woolley.; title: A philosopher [Lord Halifax] and his daughter.; title: Locke's friend, Lady Masham.; title: Mary Astell.; title: Elizabeth Elstob.; title: The debt of women to Sir Richard Steele.