Some Reflections Upon Marriage.
- Language:
- English
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- Complete work
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- Written by the author
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- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~32,600 words · 155 passages
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- APAMary Astell. (n.d.). Some Reflections Upon Marriage.. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/mary-astell/some-reflections-upon-marriage
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What it is about
Some Reflections upon Marriage (1700).
Context and history
'If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?' The sentence is from here, from the third edition. Astell was a Tory and a High Church Anglican, and that is exactly what makes the argument bite: she turns her Whig opponents' own language of liberty against them.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
Shewing, the due Behaviour of _Women_, the _Vices_ they ought to _Shun_, and the _Virtues_ they ought to _Practice_. A Treatise very necessary, in _this degenerate Age_, to _confirm_ the Ladies in their _Religious Principles_, and to instruct them in what they ought to _believe_ and _practise_, in order to their _Eternal Salvation_. A _Serious_ _PROPOSAL_ to the _LADIES_ for the Advancement of their _true_ and _greatest_ Interest, Part I. The Fourth Edition. A _Serious_ _PROPOSAL_ to the _LADIES_, Part II. Wherein a Method is offered for the _Improvement_ of their _Minds_. _LETTERS_ concerning the _LOVE_ of _GOD_, between the Author of the _Proposal to the Ladies_, and Mr. _John Norris_: Wherein his late Discourse, shewing, that it ought to be intire and exclusive of all other Loves, is farther cleared and justified. The second Edition. An _ENQUIRY_ after _WIT_: Wherein the trifling Arguing, and impious Raillery of the late Earl of _Shaftsbury_, in his Letter concerning _Enthusiasm_; and other profane Writers, are fully Answer’d and justly Exposed. The Second Edition. _MODERATION_ truly stated: Or a Review of a late Pamphlet, intitled, _Moderation a Vertue_. With a Prefatory Discourse to Dr. _D’Avenant_, concerning his late Essays on Peace and War. 4_to_. SOME REFLECTIONS UPON MARRIAGE. With _ADDITIONS_. The FOURTH EDITION. _LONDON_: Printed for _WILLIAM PARKER_, at the _King_’s _Head_ in St. _Paul_’s Church-Yard. M.
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