Philosophy: Mary Astell published "A Serious Proposal to the Ladies…

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Did you know? Mary Astell published "A Serious Proposal to the Ladies" in 1694 — almost a century before Wollstonecraft — calling for a women's university and intellectual equality between men and women. She is sometimes called "the first English feminist". Forgotten in her time, rediscovered in the 1980s.

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Mary Astell published "A Serious Proposal to the Ladies" in 1694 — almost a century before Wollstonecraft — calling for a women's university and intellectual equality between men and women. She is sometimes called "the first English feminist". Forgotten in her time, rediscovered in the 1980s.

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