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Educating English Daughters – Late Seventeenth–Century Debates

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

AvBathsua Makin,Mary More,Frances Teague,Margaret J. M. Ezell

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This edition offers texts from Bathsua Makin and Mary More, and Robert Whitehall’s response to More’s argument. Makin describes the appropriate education for London merchants’ daughters, arguing that girls should be educated and should aspire to follow learned women in history, and that educated women improve their families and themselves. More argues that women have the right to an education, and that such an education shows that the inequality of married women under English law is a man-made institution. More’s argument drew objections from her Oxford reader, Robert Whitehall, who preserved her manuscript with his own. Makin and More enjoyed a measure of public recognition and esteem, yet after their deaths, they and their texts were largely ignored until the late twentieth century.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-04-11
Mått154 x 236 x 13 mm
Vikt366 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieOther Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series
Antal sidor202
FörlagArizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US
ISBN9780866985468

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ContentsIllustrations xiAbbreviations xiiiAcknowledgments xvINTRODUCTION 1PART I: BATHSUA MAKIN (1600–1681?) 25Bathsua Makin and Women’s Education 27The Ancient Education of Gentlewomen (1673) 51PART II: MARY MORE (1633–1716) and ROBERT WHITEHALL (1625–1685) 97Mary More and Robert Whitehall: Lives and Writings 99Mary More, The Woman’s Right (ca. 1674) 129Robert Whitehall, The Woman’s Right Proved False (ca. 1674) 145Bibliography 171Index 185

Mary More and Bathsua Makin wrote essays on female education that circulated in manuscript and print in the seventeenth century. This edition, lightly modernized and with substantial, rigorous introductions and useful notes, makes these two important texts — and a third by Robert Whitehall written in response to More — more accessible to contemporary readers. The volume is compelling reading and will be an important resource for those interested in the seventeenth-century querelle des femmes, women’s education, humanist learning, and the history of feminist thought.Edith SnookProfessor of English, University of New Brunswick