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]