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ASTELL, MARY (1668-1731)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 791 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ASTELL, See also:MARY (1668-1731) , See also:English author, was See also:born at See also:Newcastle-upon-See also:Tyne. She was instructed by her See also:uncle, a clergyman, in Latin and See also:French, See also:logic, See also:mathematics and natural See also:philosophy. In her twentieth See also:year she went to See also:London, where she continued her studies. She published, in 1697, a See also:work entitled A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, wherein a Method is offered for the Improvement of their Minds. With the same end in view she elaborated a See also:scheme for a ladies' See also:college, which was favourably entertained by See also:Queen See also:Anne, and would have been carried out had not See also:Bishop See also:Burnet interfered. The most important of her other See also:works was The See also:Christian See also:Religion, as professed by a Daughter of the See also:Church of See also:England, published in 1705.

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