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But I would make it death for any male thing but to peep at us , when Defoe pleads the advisability of an act of parliament making it
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Any woman willing to receive the advances of a suitor, might leave the establishment, whilst those anxious to
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, and to foreign languages, particularly French and Italian,
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Books are recommended, especially on historical subjects, to make them understand the world, nor are
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, and
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To such whose genius would lead them to it he would deny no sort of learning. He is even roused to an ecstatic pitch of enthusiasm by the contemplation of the ideal female which his imagination conjures up before his mind's eye.
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Without partiality; a woman of sense and manners is the finest and most delicate part of God's creation, the glory of her Maker, and the great instance of his singular regard to man, his darling creature, to whom he gave the best gift either God could bestow or man receive , to which he adds that education may make of any woman
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God has given to all mankind souls equally capable, and the entire difference between the sexes proceeds
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And Defoe winds up with the bold assertion that all the world are mistaken in their practice about women,
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Wife and servant are the same, but only differ in the name , and accordingly women are exhorted to
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[24] She did not, like Swift, believe in the moral superiority of man, and called marriage
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Being all her life a furious reader, she had in her earliest years imbibed the romantic notions of d'Urfé's _Astrée_ and of de Scudéry's long-winded romances of _Cyrus_ and _Clélie_, causing her to deeply regret the utter loss of that platonic ideal of gallantry with its tendency to elevate the mind and to instil honourable sentiments which had so charmed her hours of meditation. In spite of the fact that her passion for literature met with little or no encouragement, and that her own education had been, according to her own statement[25]
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--being an exact parallel to that of which the unfortunate Clarissa Harlowe became the much-lamented victim--her erudition was such, that Pope--previous to their quarrel, when he said some very nasty things about her--playfully wondered what punishment might be in store for one who, not content, like Eve, with a single apple,
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, written nearly eighty years later. A preface to Lady Mary's Letters, which were not published until her death, was written in 1724 by Mrs. Astell, who certainly did not deserve the description given of her by the first editor of the Letters as
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, being
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[26] Her friendship for Lady Mary found its origin in the circumstance that she saw in the latter's talents the conclusive evidence of that mental equality of the sexes which she made it her business to demonstrate.
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I confess I am malicious enough to desire that the world should see to how much better purpose the Ladies travel than their Lords; and that, whilst it is surfeited with male travels all in the same tone, and stuffed with the same trifles, a lady has the skill to strike out a new path and to embellish a worn-out subject with variety of fresh and elegant entertainment.
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Let the male authors with an envious eye Praise coldly, that they may the more decry; Women (at least I speak the sense of some) This little spirit of rivalship o'ercome. I read with transport, and with joy I greet A genius so sublime, and so complete, And gladly lay my laurels at her feet.
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, addressed to Mrs. Mary Astell. She also sympathised with the latter's scheme for the establishment of a convent. She thought that a safe retreat might be preferable to a show of public life. Her friend Lady Stafford once said of her that her true vocation was a monastery, and we have Lady Mary's own evidence where, approving of a project of an English monastery in