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[THE LEARNED LADY IN ENGLAND]
1650-1760

LADY JANE GREY
From an engraving in Edmund Lodge's Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain
London, 1823, Vol. II

Vassar Semi-Centennial Series

THE LEARNED LADY
IN ENGLAND
1650-1760
BY
MYRA REYNOLDS
Professor of English Literature in the University of Chicago
WITH PORTRAITS

PUBLISHED IN HONOR OF THE

FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY

OF THE

FOUNDING OF VASSAR COLLEGE

1865-1915

TO
E. E. L.

[CONTENTS]

I.	Learned Ladies in England before 1650	[1]
	1. Prefatory Statement	[1]
	2. Period of Henry VIII and Elizabeth	[4]
	3. Period from 1603 to 1650	[23]
	4. Schools for Girls before 1660	[37]
II.	Learned Ladies in England from 1650 to 1760	[46]
	1. An Introductory Group in the Years 1650-1675	[46]
	2. The Century following the Restoration	[81]
	Actresses	[81]
	Artists	[84]
	Authors	[88]
	Writers on Practical Subjects	[89]
	Writers on Religion and Theology	[92]
	Writers on Practical Beneficence	[118]
	Dramatic Writers	[127]
	General Learning and Literary Work	[137]
III.	Education	[258]
	1. Boarding-Schools for Girls	[258]
	2. Charity Schools	[268]
	3. Higher Education	[271]
IV.	Miscellaneous Books on Women in Social and Intellectual Life	[316]
V.	Satiric Representations of the Learned Lady in Comedy	[372]
	Summary	[420]
	Bibliography	[457]
	Index	[477]

[ILLUSTRATIONS]

Lady Jane Grey	[Frontispiece]
The Family of Sir Thomas More	[10]
Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke	[22]
Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery	[32]
Mary Ward	[38]
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle From Horace Walpole's Royal and Noble Authors	[46]
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle From The Lives of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, and of his Wife, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle	[52]
Mrs. Katherine Philips	[56]
Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson and her Son	[70]
Lady Fanshawe	[74]
Mrs. Anne Killigrew	[86]
Mrs. Aphra Behn	[130]
Elizabeth Elstob	[170]
The Supposed Editors of The Female Spectator, by Mrs. Eliza Haywood	[216]
Miss Elizabeth Carter	[256]
Mrs. Bathsua Makin	[276]

THE LEARNED LADY IN ENGLAND

[THE LEARNED LADY IN ENGLAND]1650-1760

[CONTENTS]

[ILLUSTRATIONS]

[CHAPTER I]LEARNED LADIES IN ENGLAND BEFORE 1650

[THE LEARNED LADY IN ENGLAND]
1650-1760

[CHAPTER I]
LEARNED LADIES IN ENGLAND BEFORE 1650