Title: Before the bluestockings
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.
Subjects: Biography, History and condition of women, Women, History, Women intellectuals, Intellectual life
Places: Great Britain