An essay in defense of the female sex
Subtitle: in which are inserted the characters of a pedant, a squire, a beau, a vertuoso, a poetaster, a city-critick, etc.,, in a letter to a lady
By: written by a lady [i.e. Mary Astell].
Contributors: Lady.
Publisher: Printed for A. Roper and E. Wilkinson [etc.]
Published: 1696
Place of publication: London
Subjects: Women.
Description: This is an upper class British woman's defense of women. Her restraint and conscious apologies reflect a period when there was little support for women's rights.