These rather damaging negations amount, however, in the final

analysis, only to a statement that among the comparatively small

number of women writers no one reached the pre-eminence of the eight

or ten most distinguished literary men. But the same statement

could be made concerning the crowd of men striving for success in

authorship. Of most men it could be said that their best endeavors

left wide unconquered fields between them and the elect. It is,

indeed, much to say of women that, untrained, with no stimulus of

money or fame, a considerable number of them yet attained to an

honorable place in writers of a class below the best, and that

in some realms such as autobiography, biography, travels, and

letter-writing, and in writing inspired by some social reform, some

propaganda of religion or ethics, they rank among the best of their

time. The same may be said of their work in pure scholarship. Miss

Elstob, Miss Carter, and Mrs. Collyer, in their respective fields of

Anglo-Saxon, Greek, and German, were exact and thorough beyond the

demands of contemporary standards.

But even if there were not many successes to record, the great amount

of work done by women would still carry its own sort of proof.

In establishing the existence of a tendency it is not the single

brilliant example, the genius, the persons of extraordinary ability,

that count. It is rather the aims, ambitions, attempts, of many

persons variously striving in the same general direction.

[Sidenote: Comedy an embodiment of current opinion]

The general seventeenth and eighteenth century opinion concerning

learned women finds fairly complete statement in contemporary

comedy. The persistence of the learned lady as a comic type serves

incidentally as corroborative proof of the increasing attention given

by women to learned pursuits, for no stage type remains amusing from

year to year unless personages at least moderately correspondent to

the type exist in sufficient numbers to count as a factor in social

life. A basis of reality is necessary to give the type currency. But

the comedy is more important as voicing a general critical estimate

of values. A character does not hold its own as a comic type unless

to the mass of theater-goers it presents itself as out of focus

with common sense. A moral or social judgment is implied. The laugh

that followed Biddy Tipkin and Polly Honeycomb and Lydia Languish

was a recognition of the absurdity involved in regulating real life

by the rules of romance, and the underlying protest against too free

access to fiction was quite in line with the diatribes of various

grave moralists. So, too, with the learned lady. The comic character

gained its point from the assumption on the part of the playwright

and the audience that there was a fundamental incongruity between

the lady and her learning. Learning did not belong to the lady, and

when she assumed it she was thereby justly betrayed into all sorts

of humiliations and absurdities. Back of every picture there was,

consciously or unconsciously, the critical judgment. Learning and

ladies do not coalesce. Either the lady abandons the learning or the

learning spoils the lady.

There are two kinds of learned ladies represented in the comedy. In

the case of young, lovely, and well-dowered girls, learning was but

a foible. When convinced of its absurdity, these desirable maidens

put aside their big folios and became the properly humble, adoring,

and ignorant wives of the heroes whose sound good sense had shown

them their folly. The unpleasanter elements of the comic portraits

belong to dissatisfied wives whose souls were still bent on amorous

adventure; to obsolescent ladies unwilling to confess the decay of

their charms; to the old and the homely whom no bravery of attire

and no battery of glances and graces could restore to the marriage

market. To ladies of both classes Platonism is a name to conjure

with. All physical manifestations of love are abhorrent to them. The

mystic union of souls is as much as the truly refined can tolerate.

To the young learned ladies this doctrine of austerity has at first a

genuine appeal, but is quickly proved impracticable and fallacious.

To the other ladies virtue is but a screen to mask their discredited

charms.

The knowledge of the learned ladies is as spurious as their virtue.

They profess an intimate knowledge of Latin and Greek, and French

seems their native tongue. They are at ease in the jargon of

philosophical systems. They follow the telescope with the ardor of

the Royal Society itself. Their studies are full of mathematical

books and instruments. The scalpel and microscope lead them along

the path of anatomical research. But in all this parade of learning

there is no real scholarship. The ladies are pretentious and

conceited, flaunting their false Latin and Greek before all comers,

claiming to have explored the depths of knowledge when their short

swallow-flights have scarcely brushed the surface.

The comedy may be said to embody the ordinary view as to the

unsuitableness of learning for women. This implied critical negation

is given a positive analogue in the actual training given to girls.

Their early education was not neglected as is shown by the numbers of

masters and tutors provided for the young daughters of good families.

And from six to fourteen many girls were sent to the numerous

boarding schools for young misses. But whether at home or in school

the teaching included little more than deportment, accomplishments,

and housewifery. These were what, in the language of Mr. Verney,

would render a girl "considerable in the eyes of God and man." Hannah

Wood's school was the most advanced of these minor schools for girls,

and Sarah Fielding's _Little Female Academy_ depicts the best that

was done for younger girls. In any case education apparently ceased

at fifteen or sixteen.

The schools provided for girls represent what it was in general

thought that they needed. The comedy represents the absurdity of

trying to pass these limits. Confirmatory of these views would

be many private expressions by both men and women. There were,

of course, hundreds of intelligent men to whom any change in the

status of women seemed hostile to the best interests of society. And

there were hundreds of women who flouted all thoughts of learning

as essentially, eternally unfeminine. _The Spectator_ records that

at a certain period in the court of France it was counted a mark

of ill-breeding to pronounce hard words right and that ladies not

infrequently took occasion to use such words "that they might show

a Politeness in murdering them." And the diatribes in the English

feminist pamphlets from Bathsua Makin to "Sophia" show how many women

in high circles boasted of ignorance as one of their charms.

[Sidenote: Advanced opinions of a minority]

But we come to quite a different state of affairs when we consider

the opinions of the progressive minority. The proposed schemes for

higher education, although without immediate practical result, are

notable indications of a new era of thought. Bathsua Makin's was

the first formulated plan. But her effort to graft new fruit on the

old stock resulted in a singular mixture. Her impassioned desire to

induct girls into the excellencies of higher learning was hampered

in various ways. She could not lessen the attention paid to the

accomplishments; she could not venture to push the school age beyond

sixteen; and she could not make her beloved linguistics compulsory.

What she did accomplish was not in the establishment of an ordered

system. It was rather the impress of her tastes and advanced ideas on

the minds of individual pupils. The girls who went from the Tottenham

High Cross School to various distinguished homes in England had no

alarmingly fluent or exact knowledge of Latin, Greek, or Hebrew. But

they had all at least been invited to look within the portals of the

palace of learning and some had found it rich and alluring. To all

had come a new conception of the learning possible to women. Mrs.

Makin's court prestige, her reputation for prodigious scholastic

attainments, her courage, originality, and independence, made her a

dignified and an authoritative figure. It is a matter of regret that

full annals of her school were not preserved.

The education proposed by Dr. Hickes in his remarkable sermon in

1683, ten years after Mrs. Makin established her school, was not

analyzed into details. But when he suggested for women seminaries of

learning similar to Oxford and Cambridge with only such changes in

the instruction and the regimen as might be found advisable to fit

them for their lives as women, and when he urged rich and childless

women to make their wealth serve humanity by founding such colleges

for girls, he was too far ahead of his time to meet any immediate

practical response, or even any opposition.

The next plan came from Mary Astell. This was a matured scheme.

Her college was to be a sort of conventual retreat without vows

and with an emphasis on the intellectual as well as the religious

life. Publicity, college honors, degrees, were not thought of.

There were to be no required studies, nor does she suggest even an

orderly progression of lectures. The heterogeneous character of her

proposed clientèle forbade any rigidity of plan. Mary Astell seems

to have looked about her and found many women to whom the customary

régime offered no satisfactory place. There were widows who did not

choose remarriage, spinsters unwelcome in the homes allotted them

by kinship, girls with dowries too slender to make an advantageous

marriage probable, young heiresses subject to the too adventurous

pursuit of impecunious lovers and so in need of a haven pending

marriage. All these uncoördinated needs were to be met by the new

institution. The plan was to provide agreeable surroundings wherein

women could tranquilly and without hostile criticism work out their

own salvation. Practical beneficence, teaching, study in various

realms, religious meditation, were the avenues open to individual

choice. To the women who remained permanently in the college a life

of dignified achievement was possible. Upon the young women who were

destined to be wives and mothers in important homes would be exerted

an influence tending to ennoble them in their domestic relations,

and the learning they had gained would prove a resource amidst the

distractions and trials of life. The plan included too much, and

the adjustments rendered necessary by its captivating flexibility

would have taxed any organizer to the utmost. Perhaps it is as well

that the scheme was not put to the test of practice. Mary Astell's

contribution was in the idea she set forth and in her eloquent

defense of that idea.

It is surprising that Defoe's plan for a woman's college should have

been coincident with Mary Astell's, yet independent of it. Defoe's

fertile imagination creates curious buildings in which to house his

Academy. He evidently considers Mary Astell's plan as too loose in

general structure and too religious in tone to be practicable. He

narrows his work down to such studies as are given in public schools.

After Defoe we hear of no further plans for higher education. But

the idea lingered in the minds of many. Richardson in _Clarissa

Harlowe_ suggests such an institution, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

says that it was her youthful ambition to be foundress of a college.

In Mrs. Centlivre's _Basset Table_ the learned young Valeria is

advised to found a woman's college in which the pupils shall be

called "Valerians." The most curious and interesting embodiment of

the scheme was that by Thomas Amory. The fullness and realistic

precision of detail in his account of the "Hertfordshire Religious

Retirement" were such as to make his heroine, the foundress, accepted

as an historical personage. The fictitious narrative is, however, of

especial significance as showing the persistence of Mary Astell's

abortive plan.

In complete harmony with these various schemes for giving women

greater intellectual freedom was the attitude in many private

homes. It is quite surprising to discover how many studious girls

had a favorable home environment. Elizabeth Jocelyn's grandfather,

a distinguished bishop, conducted her studies. Mary North's father

"fostered her little assemblage of female _literati_." Lady Pakington

was taught by the learned Sir Norton Knatchbull. Lucy Apsley's father

spurred her on to outdo her brothers in Latin, and Mr. Hutchinson

fell in love with her for her poetry and learning. Dudleya North had

the same teachers and studies as her brothers until they went to the

University. Damaris Cudworth's mind was her father's joy and pride

and Locke was her tutor. Bishop Burnet provided for his daughter Mary

all possible opportunities in books and art. John Evelyn cherished

the intellectual tastes of his daughter and showed her writings and

paintings with pride. Anne Baynard, Anna Hume, Elizabeth Singer,

were girls whose early literary tendencies found paternal approval

and aid. William Elstob gave fullest sympathy and guidance to his

ambitious young sister, the _indefessa comes_ of his studies. And

Elizabeth Carter's intellectual needs ruled the household.

These protected home studies were not unlike the opportunities

offered girls in Tudor times and had the same disadvantages. There

were no ordered courses of study. The depths and shallows of a girl's

learning were largely dependent on the tastes of her father or tutor.

She entered upon such a line of work as offered itself, prepared

herself for it as she went along, and achieved what she could. As

compensations for a training so desultory were the concentration and

zest of the work, the undisciplined ardor of the pioneer, contact

with great books and men of well-seasoned learning.

It is important to note that these scattered homes where the daughter

found herself free to develop learned tastes were doubtless more

numerous than is at first apparent. We know of a few such homes

because of chance published records. But there must have been many

homes where the lettered leisure such as we find in the Evelyn

family, in Lord Winchilsea's at Eastwell, and in Archbishop Secker's

at Canterbury, was shared in to the fullest extent by the ladies of

the household. No daughter of the family might attain to notice as a

writer, but the result of such reading and thinking would be a high

level of general intelligence which might, in the mass, be of more

significance than authorship.

More important still as indicative of a new era is the favor accorded

learned women by many men of high standing. The adulation given the

Duchess of Newcastle may have been inspired by her rank and wealth,

but Jeremy Taylor, Cowley, and the Earl of Roscommon had no such

reason for their homage to Orinda. The clergymen who gathered at

Lady Pakington's rejoiced in her great learning. Dryden gave to Anne

Killigrew such praise as awaits few poets and artists. The Norths

gave honorable public recognition of Dudleya North's remarkable

linguistic attainments. The family circle at Eastwell applauded Lady

Winchilsea's poems. Mrs. Blackwell's work received formal recognition

from the most learned doctors of the day. Of the early novel-writers

Richardson is so well recognized as the sex's champion, and as the

champion of learned ladies in particular, that his services need no

further emphasis. Fielding's satirical picture of Mrs. Western ends

with the conclusion that "petticoats should not meddle," but he more

than turns the scale by the opinions he expresses in the Prefaces to

his sister's books. Most men of ability preferred as companions women

of good minds and a fair stock of ideas. Even Bishop Burnet, while

afraid of general education, praises the intellectual endowment and

learned attainments of each of his three wives. And Swift, though

contemptuous of the race of women, for close comradeship chose

Stella, a woman of wit, sense, and learning, in preference to some

one of the doll or clinging-vine type. And his amiability, though

rather too condescending, towards various literary ladies, may in

part offset his brutal general statements. The fact is, nearly every

woman of learned or literary attainments was accorded praise--even an

undue meed of praise--from her immediate circle and from at least a

few of her distinguished contemporaries.

Furthermore, publication of worthy work was made a matter of

urgency. Dr. Hickes did all in his power to bring Elizabeth Elstob's

Anglo-Saxon work before the learned public of his day, and it was

he who insisted on the publication of Susanna Hopton's letters.

Lady Masham's _Letters of the Love of God_ were brought out only on

the insistence of John Norris. Mrs. Cockburn's early philosophical

writings received immediate praise from Bishop Burnet, John Norris,

and John Locke. But for Archbishop Secker Miss Carter's _Epictetus_

would have remained in manuscript. It was through Bishop Burnet's

insistence that his wife's _Meditations_ were published.

And still one more debt must be recorded, for some of the most

important books in behalf of women were written by men. From Gerbier

to Ballard the list is an interesting one. No woman ventured on

statements so astounding as those which Poulain de la Barre deduced

from his fundamental assumption of the equality of the sexes. His

arguments may have been but an academic pushing of a principle to

its logical conclusion, or his book may even have been satirical

in intent, but the English translation was evidently made in all

seriousness and served as a basis for "Sophia's" most audacious

claims. Specific attempts to bring female genius into knowledge and

repute were by men. John Duncomb's _Feminead_ in 1751 leads the list,

and before 1760 we have the _Poems by Eminent Ladies_ of Bonnell and

Thornton, the _Lives_ by Theophilus Cibber, the exaltation of learned

women in _John Buncle_, and, chief of all, the monumental work by

George Ballard.

In summary it seems fair to say that while there was a general

opinion adverse to the learning of women and suspicious of it, there

were yet many men who seriously held views that would not sound

antiquated in any modern defense of the higher education of women.

[Sidenote: Education in relation to the Church]

In all the discussions of plans for the intellectual training of

women two suggestive limitations are to be noted. One is that nearly

all men and women who favored the higher education did so because

of the advantage it would be to the Church. The Quakers recognized

the right of women to speak in public because they believed such

action authorized by the Scriptures, but the freedom so granted did

not go beyond religious topics. Susanna Wesley's ministry to her

husband's parishioners was excusable only because her teaching was

in the service of the Church. And the clergymen of high rank who

favored learned women did so because the piety of these women would

probably prove more advantageous if it were trained. Even Ballard put

extra emphasis on the ladies who read the Scriptures in Hebrew and

Greek. And it was probably ethical rather than literary standards

that precluded any mention in his record of women such as Mrs. Behn,

Mrs. Manley, and Mrs. Haywood. In all Ballard's many pages I do not

recall even a hint that his learned ladies could be accused of any

irregularities of life or doctrine. And it is because women are

naturally devout that Amory chooses learned young ladies to expound

his new religion.

The basis of Bishop Burnet's objection to Mary Astell's college was

that a body of women thus set apart for learning might conceivably

prove inimical to the Church. The isolated learned lady under the

charge of some wise husband or father could presumably be guided in

right paths or suppressed. But who could give bonds for a college of

learned women? It was the attitude towards the Church that turned the

scale against or in favor of higher education. In point of fact, no

woman--not even the most profligate--wrote against religion. On the

contrary, all women of letters--even the most profligate--wrote in

favor of religion. Genuinely, or as a matter of convention, they all

upheld virtue and the authority of the Church.

[Sidenote: Outcome of education not foreseen]

A second limitation is that the ultimate outcome of any greatly

increased intellectual freedom for women was but dimly descried.

If women were permitted to pursue learning into remote fastnesses,

if they were allowed to thread their difficult way through the

entanglements of philosophical disputations, if they were encouraged

to look out upon the follies of life with satiric or reformatory

intent, further steps in independence would seem an inevitable

sequence. But such steps were not only not taken, they were not even

foreseen. Nor did the most advanced men and women make any claims

extending beyond the freedom to read, write, and think according to

their own desires. Home duties and relationships remained unchanged.

Bathsua Makin said that higher education was not designed to

make wives self-assertive, but more reasonably and intelligently

submissive. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Mary Astell, the two most

advanced and independent women of their day, are at one with the

theory of the divinely ordained headship of man. Their bitterness of

tone contains no thought of change, no hint of rebellion. Women were

still under the dominion of fathers and husbands. The difference was

that these fathers and husbands were in numerous instances willing

to accord a very much enlarged freedom. But the next step was not

taken by virtue of which the final right of decision as to her own

thought and action would have belonged to the woman herself.

There was, furthermore, no claim made by women for any part in public

life. Mary Wollstonecraft's suffrage programme of 1791, mild as it

was, would have seemed to Mary Astell an incredible overturning

of feminine ideals. Mary Astell and her congeners could not see

that the putting of educational weapons into the hands of women

was a concession carrying with it all later demands of feminism.

The advocates of higher education for women were blind to the

potentialities of the situation. There was no immediate following-up

of theory into action. The idea of woman as a self-sufficing,

self-directing individuality, responsible for her own destiny,

and capable of playing an important part in civic and national

affairs, did not come into clear outline until two centuries after

Mary Astell's pronunciamento. In the period before 1760 we become

aware of a moving on the waters. We are conscious of a great stir

of preparation as for a crisis. Many paths converge towards one

goal, but no goal is reached. Plans and achievements and favorable

utterances seem to halt in mid-air.

A detailed study of the various ways in which women sought for

fuller and richer intellectual life shows in what isolation they

worked, with what lack of leadership, with what a depressing sense

of the futility of their uncoördinated efforts. The beginnings of

the new ideals for women were so modest and unassuming, so casual,

so without self-consciousness, that at the time they could hardly be

recognized as beginnings. Evidences of a new vitality appear in the

retrospect as numerous and promising, but in reality each thinker of

new thoughts stood out alone, a solitary champion, scarcely realizing

that in other parts of the field other champions were fighting under

the same banners. We can now bring together many rather advanced

statements in favor of educating girls. But these were often mere

passing isolated utterances. There was nothing like an organized

propaganda, no body of public opinion growing steadily in mass and

power till it became dominant. There are hundreds of blades pushing

up through the dark earth, but the field is never quite ripe for

harvest. There is so much reasoning, so much able thought, so much

sincerity of feeling and aspiration, and there are so many women

reaching out into new mental realms, that a decisive revolution of

opinion seems often imminent. But the world listens unconvinced, and

in the actual affairs of life apparently applies the old standards.

What was actually accomplished in the century before 1760 was a

lavish sowing of seed, a steady infiltration of new ideas, a breaking

up of old certainties as to woman's place in domestic and civic life,

and an accumulation of examples proving women capable of the most

varied intellectual aptitudes and energies.

THE END

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INDEX

_Abbot and the Learned Woman, The_, 12

_Abel, The Death of_, 232

_Abels, Der Tod_, 232

_Academia: or the Humours of Oxford_, 145

Actresses, 81-84, 433

Adams, Eleanor N., 176

Addison, Joseph, 174, 437, 444

_Adventures of Rivella_, 209

_Advice to a Daughter_, 324, 326

_Æsop_, 387-88

_Agnes de Castro_, 105

Aitkin, George, 232

Alexander, William, 423

Algarotti, 256

"A. M.," Mrs., 92

Amory, Thomas, 167, 367-71, 422, 450

_Amours of Bosvil and Galesia_, 162, 163, 164, 165

_Ane Godlie Dreame_, 21

_Anecdotes of Painting_, 84

_Anglia_, 74

_Anglo-Saxon Grammar_, 176-79

Anne, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery, 32-33

_Apology, Mrs. James's_, 103

_Apology for the Church of England, An_, 103

"Arabella," 411-12

Arbuthnot, John, 393

"Ardelia," 139, 152, 444.

_See_ Winchilsea, Lady

_Armenian Nunnery, The_, 41

_Art of Cookery, The_, 92

_Arte of English Poesie, The_, 18

Arundel, Daughters of the Earl of, 13

Arundel, Mary, Countess of, 14

Ascham, Roger, 14, 426

Ashton, John, 259, 260, 263

Askew, Ann, 113, 326

"Aspasia," 121

Astell, Mary, 35, 100, 101, 111, 200, 246, 291, 297-305, 311, 313,

341, 347, 350, 370, 442, 443, 444, 450, 454, 455

"Astræa," 106, 130, 160, 209

_See_ Behn, Mrs.

_Athenæ Oxoniensis_, 140, 190

Aubrey, John, 20, 21, 22, 54, 421

Bacon, Lady, 13, 23

_Bailey's Dictionary_, 217

Ballard, George, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 18, 31, 35, 67, 77, 119,

140, 178, 179, 181, 185, 224, 252, 353, 354-65, 366, 421, 422,

452, 453

Barber, Mrs. Mary, 218-22, 224, 251

Barker, Miss Jane, 161-65, 262, 434, 437, 439

_Barker, Mrs. Jane. Ein Beitrag zur Englischen Literaturgeschichte_,

161

Barksdale, Clement, 273

Barnard, Mr., 123

Barnes (or Berners), Juliana, 4

Barre, Poulain de la, 286-90

_Basset Table, The_, 389-91

_Bath, A Description of_, 251

Baynard, Anne, 144-45, 451

Beale, Mary, 84-85, 88, 433

Bedford, Lady, 28, 29, 433

Behn, Mrs. Aphra, 129-31, 134, 136, 326, 366, 378-79, 424, 431, 436,

437, 453

Beighton, Mr., 327

Bell, Mrs. Susanna, 95

Bellamy, Daniel, 264-67

Betterton, Mrs., 82, 83

_Bevis of Hamtoun, Sir_, 3

_Bibliographica_, 42

Bickerstaff, 398-99

"Biddy Tipkin," 403-09, 418-19, 446

_Biographia Britannica_, 84, 423

_Biographia Dramatica_, 136, 188

_Biographium Femineum_, 32, 145, 368, 422

Birch, Thomas, 110, 421

Birch, Una, 271

Blackwell, Mrs. Elizabeth, 185-87, 425, 431, 435, 452

Blagge, Mrs. Margaret, 428, 440, 444

_See_ Mrs. Godolphin

Blake, William, 268

Bland, Mrs., 160-61, 365

Blount, Martha, 350

Boarding-schools for Girls, 258-68

Bohemia, Princess of, 26

_Bold Stroke for a Wife, A_, 134

_Book for Boys and Girls_, 89, 435

Boulting, William, 4

Bourne, Henry, 102

Bovey, Mrs. Catherine, 118, 119-20, 124, 435

_Bowyer, Anecdotes of_, 103, 104, 180, 187, 193, 243

Bracegirdle, Anne, 82, 83

Bradshaigh, Lady, 338-41

Brathwait, Richard, 24

Breton, Nicholas, 22

_Brief Lives_, 20, 21, 54, 421

Brightland, John, 177

_British Muse, The_, 190

_British Quarterly Review_, 114

Broadstreet, Anne, 326

Brooke, Lady Elizabeth, 93, 443, 444

Brooke, Henry, 223

Brooke, Mrs., 352

_Brookiana_, 223

Bruce, James, 187

_Brumoy's Greek Theatre_, 135, 242

Brydges, Sir Egerton, 53

Buckingham, Duchess of, 126

_Buncle, The Life of John_, 167, 234, 367, 368, 453

Bunyan, John, 89, 435

Burleigh, Lady, 12

Burnet, Mrs. Elizabeth, 98

Burnet, George, 107, 108

Burnet, Gilbert, 144, 145, 196, 197, 350-51, 450, 452, 454

Burnet, Thomas, 303

Bury, Mrs., 99-100, 365

_Bury-Fair_, 380-82, 402

_Busy Body, The_, 134, 135-36

"Calista," 386 (Mrs. Cockburn)

Campbell, Thomas, 423

Cannon, Mary Agnes, 9

Carew, Lady Elizabeth, 326

Carey, Lady Elizabeth (Spencer), 29

Carey, Lady Elizabeth (Tanfield), 33, 34

Carey, Lady Letice, 34

Carlisle, Anne, 84

Caroline, Queen, 184

Carter, Elizabeth, 77, 243, 245, 255-57, 352, 440, 445, 451, 452

Carter, Thomas, 35, 41

_Castara_, 24

Castiglione, Baldasar, 18, 426

"Catchat," 383

Catherine, Queen, 6, 7, 426

_Cato_, 199, 437

Cellier, Mrs. Elizabeth, 90-91, 434

Centlivre, Mrs. Susanna, 132, 133-37, 389-91, 436, 450

Centlivre, Mrs., German Studies of her Plays, 137

_Century of Distichs_, 13

Chalmers, Alexander, 12, 422, 423

Chambers, Mary C. E., 38

Chandler, Mary, 251

Chapone, Mrs., 182-85

_Characters_, 23

Charity Schools, 268-71

Charles I, 84, 427

Chidley, Katherine, 36-37

_Child and His Book, The_, 89

Children's Books, 89, 233

_Choice Manuall_, A, 31

_Christmas Box, A_, 233, 435

Christopherson, Dr., 11

Chudleigh, Lady, 147-50

Cibber, Colley, 135, 229, 395-98

Cibber, Mrs. Susanna, 83

Cibber, Theophilus, 84, 128, 129, 146, 155, 208, 212, 251, 366, 393,

422

Circulating Libraries, 414-15

_City Match, The_, 375

_City of Learned Women, A_, 4

Claire, Countess Dowager of, 20

_Clarissa Harlowe_, 337-38, 450

"Clinket, Phœbe," 349, 393-95

Cockburn, Mrs. Catherine, 104-11, 245, 248, 352, 386, 437, 440, 443

Coke, Daughters of Sir Anthony, 12, 13, 27, 326

Cole, Dr., 11

Coleman, Mrs., 81

Collet, Mary, 40, 42

Collier, Jeremy, 118, 130, 152, 444

Collier, Margaret, 341-42

Collyer, Mrs. Mary Mitchell, 131, 231-35, 425, 431, 435, 437, 445

_Collyer, Mrs. Mary Mitchell: A Romanticist of the Mid-Century_,

234-35

Colman, George, 413-18

Colville, Lady Elizabeth, 20

_Comparison between the Two Stages_, 82, 388-89

_Confessio Amantis_, 3

Congreve, William, 121, 384-86, 444

_Conjugal Duty_, 147-49

_Conscious Lovers, The_, 137, 234

Conway, Lady, 112-14, 443

_Cook's New Year's Gift, The_, 91

Cooper, Mrs. Elizabeth, 187-93, 421, 425, 426

_Cortegiano, Il_, 18

Cotterell, Sir Charles, 55, 58, 59

_Countess of Lincoln's Nurserie, The_, 30, 31

_Countess of Montgomerie's Urania, The_, 29

_Court Poems_, 199

Coventry, Francis, 125, 126

Cowley, Hannah, 137

Creed, Elizabeth, 88

Cudworth, Damaris, 450.

_See_ Masham, Mrs.

Cumberland, Margaret, Countess of, 31

_Cursor Mundi_, 2

Curtis, Sarah, 87

_Cyclopædia of Education_, 37, 42, 44, 276

_Damoiselles à la Mode_, 377

Dancy, Elizabeth, 11

D'Anvers, Mrs. Alicia, 145-46

Danvers, Elizabeth, 20

Davenport, Cyril, 42

_David Simple_, 235-37, 239

Davies, Lady Eleanor, 37

Davies, Sir John, 277

Davys, Mrs. Mary, 231

Debate in the House of Lords, 202-04

_Defence of the Doctrine of Resurrection of Body_, 109

Defoe, Daniel, 303, 311-13, 444, 450

Delany, Dr., 219, 221, 226, 252, 253

Delany, Mrs., 87, 183-85, 203, 251-54, 262, 361, 362, 423, 425

Denton, Nancy, 24, 25

De Quincey, Thomas, 346

_Devil is an Ass, The_, 375

_Dialogue concerning Women, A_, 322-23

_Diary._ _See_ Evelyn, John

_Diary._ _See_ Godolphin, Mrs.

_Diary._ _See_ Oldys, William

_Diary._ _See_ Pepys, Samuel

_Diary._ _See_ Thoresby, Ralph

_Diary._ _See_ Warwick, Countess of

Dictionary of Painters, 84

_Discourse concerning the Love of God_, 101

_Discourse of the Nature, Offices, and Measures of Friendship_, 56

_Distressed Mother, The_, 338, 437

_Divine and Moral Songs for Children_, 89, 435

_Double Dealer, The_, 384-86

Drummond, Robert B., 12

Dryden, John, 106, 129, 140, 144, 179, 211, 366, 377, 437, 444, 451

Duncomb, John, 352-54, 453

_Dunton, John, Life and Errors of_, 103

Dyce, Alexander, 19, 21, 37, 423, 424

_Early Metrical Tales_, 21

Eckenstein, Lina, 1

_Education of a Daughter, Instructions for the_, 266, 291

Education of Girls, Higher, 271-315

_L'Egalité des Hommes et des Femmes_, 27

_Eleonora's Adventures_, 204

_Eliza's Babes_, 127

Elizabeth, Queen, 19, 23, 27, 53, 426, 427

_Elogium Heroinum_, 26, 274

Elstob, Elizabeth, 169-85, 246, 304, 305, 353, 363, 425, 439, 445,

451, 452

Elstob, William, 171, 172, 173, 176, 179, 181, 451

_Eminent Englishwomen, Memoirs of_, 424

_Eminent Persons, Letters of_, 171, 357, 361

_Enchiridion_, 197

_English Gentleman, The_, 24

_English Historical Review_, 1

_English Poets_, 423

_Entertaining Novels_, 161, 162

"Ephelia," 138, 139.

_See_ Philips, Joan

_Epicœne_, 374

_Epictetus_, 197, 256, 452

Erasmus, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 17, 275, 426

_Essay in Defence of the Female Sex_, 305-11

_Essay on Nature and Obligations of Virtue_, 109

_Essay on Projects_, 303, 311-13

_Essay on Samplers_, 260

_Essay to Revive Antient Education of Gentlewomen_, 280-86

Etherege, George, 130, 376, 444

Evelyn, John, 19, 44, 52, 77, 80, 87, 141, 278, 303, 421, 440, 450,

451

Evelyn, Mary, 87, 141-43

Evelyn, Mrs., 51, 141-43, 440

_Evesham, History of_, 181

_Experiences of God's Gracious Dealing_, 95

_External Nature in English Poetry between Pope and Wordsworth_,

369

Fage, Mary, 36

_Fair Counsellor, The_, 149

_False Delicacy_, 137

_Fame's Roule_, 36

_Familiar Letters between Characters of David Simple_, 236

_Familiar Letters and Poems_, 249

Fanshawe, Lady, 45, 74-76, 80, 428, 432, 439

"Fantast, Lady," 380-82

"Fantast, Mrs.," 380-82

Farquhar, George, 106, 389

_Fatal Friendship_, 105, 106, 437

_Felicia to Charlotte_, 234

Fell, Mrs. Margaret, 111-12, 113

_Fells of Swarthmore Hall, The_, 111

_Female Biography_, 368, 423

_Female Poems_, 138

_Female Poets_, 127

_Female Spectator, The_, 216

_Female Vertuosos, The_, 382-84, 402

_Female Wits_, 132

_Feminead_, 352-54, 453

_Feminine Influence on Poets_, 29

_Femmes poètes, Les, au XVI^e siècle_, 28

_Femmes Savantes, Les_, 376, 377, 378, 380, 395

Fénelon, François de Salignac, 266, 291

Fenn, Mr., 108

Ferrar, Miss, 352

Ferrar, Nicholas, 40, 41

Feugère, Leon, 28

Field, Mrs., 89

Fielding, Henry, 201, 235, 236, 342-43, 452

Fielding, Sarah, 89, 233, 235-37, 245, 437, 447

_Fielding, Miss Sarah, als Romanschriftstellerin_, 239

Fiennes, Celia, 165-69, 432, 441

Finch, Anne, 112-14. _See_ Conway, Lady

_Floris and Blanchefleur_, 3

Fordyce, Dr. James, 429

_Fortnightly Review_, 1

_Fortunate Parish Girl, The_, 204

_Fountain of Gardens, A_, 114

_Four hundred new sorts of Birds_, 260

Fox, George, 112

Foxcroft, H. C., 351

French Romances, 195, 400-04, 410, 412, 413

"Froth, Lady," 384-86

"Galesia," 163. _See_ Barker, Jane

Galindo, Beatrix, 6

Gay, John, 174, 199, 393

_General Biographical Dictionary_, 12, 422, 423

_Generous Husband, The_, 391-93

Genest, John, 77, 83, 132, 188, 241

_Gentleman Instructed, Supplement to The_, 333-36

_Gentleman's Magazine, The_, 123, 187, 189, 240, 241, 246

_George Barnwell_, 205

Gerbier, Balthaser, 44

Gerbier, Charles, 26-27, 274, 452

_German Literature in England before 1790_, 232

_Gesner, Solomon, Influence of, upon English Literature_, 232

Gethin, Lady Grace, 102-03

Gibbon, Hester, 269

Gibson, Susan Penelope, 87

Giffard, Lady Martha, 59, 61, 64, 155-56

Gildon, Charles, 82-83, 323-24, 388-89, 421

_Gildon's Letters_, 323-24

Glasse, Mrs. Hannah, 92, 434

Godfrey, Elizabeth, 34, 40, 68, 89

Godolphin, Mrs. Margaret, 76-81

_Goody Two Shoes_, 89

Gorges House, 258

Gosse, Edmund, 57, 213

_Gossip in a Library_, 213

Gournay, Marie de Jars de, 27, 290, 323

Grandison, Sir Charles, 354

Gray, Thomas, 167

Greatrakes, Valentine, 113

Grey, Elizabeth, Countess of Kent, 31

Grey, Lady Jane, 14-16, 20, 27, 326

Grierson, Mrs. Constantia, 218, 221, 222-25, 226

Grinæus, Symon, 9

_Guardian, The_, 329-30

_Guy of Warwick_, 2

Habington, William, 24

Hale, Mrs., 424

Halifax, Marquess of, 319-22, 324

Halkett, Lady Anne, 93-95, 443, 444

Hand-work, 254, 260-64

Haney, J. L., 232

"Harcourt, Miss Harriot Eusebia," 368-71

Harley, Lady Brilliana, 31

Hastings, Lady Elizabeth, 120-24, 174, 182, 304

Hays, Mary, 368, 423

Hayward, Thomas, 190, 421

Haywood, Mrs. Eliza, 134, 212-18, 230, 424, 431, 437, 453

_Hearne's Collections_, 177, 180, 181

_Henrietta_, 241

Henry VIII, 4, 5, 6, 426

Henry, Aurelia, 374

Hepburn, Anne, 109

_Herbal, A Curious_, 185-87

Heron, Cecilia, 11

Herrod, St., 1

Hertford, Countess of, 352

Hickes, Dr. George, 67, 120, 126, 170, 172, 174, 177, 266, 270,

290-96, 297, 303, 448, 452

Highmore, Miss, 353

Hilda, St., 1

Hildegard, St., 1

Hill, Georgiana, 26, 45, 52, 111

_History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy_, 216

_History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless_, 213, 216

Hogarth, William, 269

Holdsworth, Dr. Winch, 109

_Home Life under the Stuarts_, 34, 89

_Homily on the Birthday of St. Gregory_, 172-76

_Honey on the Rod_, 127

Hopton, Mrs. Susanna, 100, 291, 443, 452

"Hortensia," 387-88

_Hortus Deliciarum_, 1

Hroswitha, 1

_Hudibras_, 104

Hudson, Lady Anne, 26, 274

Hughes, Helen Sard, 231, 233, 234

Hume, Alexander, 20

Hume, Anna, 35, 451

_Huntington, Lady, and Her Friends_, 125

Huntington, Lady Selina, 124-27, 444

Hutcheson, Archibald, 269

_Hutchinson, Lucy, and the Duchess of Newcastle_, 74

Hutchinson, Mrs., 45, 69-74, 80, 428, 432, 439, 450

_Hutchinson, Memoirs of Colonel_, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73

Hyrde, Richard, 7, 8, 426

_Idler, The_, 267

_Illustrations of Literary History_, 178, 179, 180, 181

_Illustrious Persons of Great Britain_, 421

Inchbald, Mrs., 136

_Inconstant, The_, 389

_Ingenii Muliebris, De_, 273

_Institutione Fæminæ Christiannæ_, 7

Isabella, Queen, 6

Jacob, Giles, 191, 421

James I, 14

James, Mrs. Eleanor, 103

Janeway, James, 89

Jocelyn, Elizabeth, 29-30, 95, 450

_John Inglesant_, 41, 113

Johnson, Charles, 391-93

Johnson, Samuel, 123, 239, 240, 241, 242, 261, 336

Johnstone, Grace, 68, 69

Jones, Mary, 247-48

Jonson, Ben, 29, 129, 374, 375

Juncker, Christian, 421

_Justification of the Independent Churches of Christ_, 36

Juvenal, 314, 374

_Katherine, Queene, Parre's lamentation of a sinner_, 14

Kavanagh, Julia, 130, 424

Keats, John, 56, 57

Kello, Esther, 35

Kemys, Mary and Anne, 269

Ken, Bishop, 269

Kennedy, Lady Margaret, 350-51

Kidder, Edward, 263

Killigrew, Anne, 85-86, 139-41, 150, 297, 426, 439, 444, 451

Killigrew, Mrs. Katherine, 13

Kingsmill, Anne, 150, 297, 439, 444

_See_ Winchilsea, Lady

Knight, Mrs. Helen C., 125

"Knowell, Lady," 378-79

Labadie, Jean de, 273

_Ladies' Calling, The_, 52, 316-19, 320, 326, 402

_Ladies' Defence, The_, 147-50

_Ladies' Diary, The_, 327-29

_Ladies' Dictionary, The_, 324-27

_Ladies, Fables for_, 336-37

Ladies, Italian learned, 249-50

_Ladies' Library, The_, 119, 330-33, 366

_Ladies of Great Britain, Memoirs of Several_ (Amory), 367-71

_Ladies of Great Britain, Memoirs of Several_ (Ballard), 5, 9, 10,

11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 31, 35, 100, 119, 252, 276, 352, 353,

354-65, 366

_Ladies' Museum, The_, 242

_Ladies, On the Education of_, 344-45

_Ladies, Poems by Eminent_, 224, 246, 249, 352, 365-66

_Ladies, Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy explained for_, 256

_Lady, Advice to a_, 336

_Lady, Letter to a Very Young_, 345-46, 347

_Lady, The_, 2, 4

_Lady's Drawing-Room, The_, 410-11

_Lady's Magazine, The_, 102

_Lady's New Year's Gift, or Advice to a Daughter_, 319-22, 324, 326

_Lady Vane's Memoirs_, 204

"Lætitia," 196

Lagno, Isadore del, 4

Law, William, 123, 269

Lead, Mrs. Jane, 114-15

_Leading Women of the Restoration_, 68, 69

Leapor, Mary, 246-47, 352, 430

_Learned Maid, or Whether a Maid may be a Scholar_, 273

"Learned," The Term, 424-26

Lebrixa, Francisca de, 6

Lee, Francis, 114

_Legacy of a Dying Mother_, 95

Leland, John, 11

Lennox, Mrs. Charlotte, 135, 195, 239-43, 246, 411-12, 413, 437

_Letter touching a College of Maids_, 273

_Letters concerning the Love of God_, 101, 297

_Levellers, The_, 259

_Lilliputian Magazine, The_, 233

Lioba, St., 1

_Lionel and Clarissa_, 398-99

_Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century_, 103, 170, 171, 172,

178, 180, 246, 251

_Little Catechism with Little Verses_, 89, 435

_Little Female Academy_, 233, 237-38, 435, 447

Little Gidding, 40-42, 44, 270

_Little Pretty Pocket Book_, 233, 435

_Lives of the English Poets_ (Winstanley), 190, 421

_Lives of the Poets_ (Cibber), 84, 128, 129, 146, 155, 208, 212,

251, 366, 421, 453

Locke, John, 100, 101, 102, 107, 109, 338, 343, 452

London, Bishop of, 26

_Looking-Glass for Children_, 89

_Lost Lover, The_, 208

Lounsbury, Thomas, 192

_Love in Excess_, 366

_Love's Labour's Lost_, 37

"Lovewit, Mrs.," 383

Lowndes, W. T., 189

Lucar, Elizabeth, 16, 430

Lumley, Lady Joanna, 14

"Lydia Languish," 418-19, 446

Lynacre, Dr., 6

Lyttleton, Lord, 336

Luther, Martin, 25

Macaulay, Catherine, 429, 430

Macaulay, T. B., 142, 431

Madan, Mrs., 248-49

Major, Elizabeth, 127

Makin, Mrs., 44, 341, 426, 441, 448

Malcolm, James P., 267

Manley, Mrs. de la Rivière, 106, 119, 132, 151, 208-11, 230, 304,

424, 431, 437, 453

Manly, Mrs. Arabella, 260

_Manners and Customs in London in the Eighteenth Century_, 267

Manning, Anne, 9

"Marilla," 410-11, 418

"Marinda," 155. _See_ Monck, The Hon. Mrs.

Marinelli, Lucrecia, 27, 53, 323

"Marissa," 149. _See_ Lady Chudleigh

_Marriage à la Mode_, 377

"Marsilia" [Mrs. Manley], 387

Mary, Princess, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17

Mary Salome, Mother, 38

Masham, Lady Damaris, 100-02, 443, 444, 452

Mason, Mr., 89, 435

Masters, Mary, 249-50

Mayne, Jasper, 375

McIlquham, Miss, 315

"Meanwell, Lady," 383-84

"Melantha," 378

Melville, Elizabeth, 20

Mendoza, Doña Maria Pacheco, 6

_Method of Devotion_, 98

_Midsummer Night's Dream, A_, 38

_Midwives' Book, The_, 90

Miles, Dudley, 376

"Millamant," 377

_Millennium Hall_, 271

Milton, John, 25

"Miss" and "Mrs.," 76-77

_Mock Astrologer, The_, 377

_Modern Language Notes_, 27

Molière, J. B. P., 368, 375, 376, 396, 400, 402, 403

_Molière, Influence of, on Restoration Comedy_, 376

Monck, The Hon. Mrs., 155

Monk, Mrs., 412-13

Monroe, Paul, 37, 42, 44, 276

Montagu, Mrs. Elizabeth, 263

_Montagu, Lady Mary, and her Times_, 194, 196, 199

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 66, 193-208, 262, 305, 315, 336, 341,

349, 424, 439, 440, 441, 450, 454

Montagu, Mr. Wortley, 196, 198, 199

Moore, Edward, 336-37

More, Cresacre, 9, 10, 11

More, Henry, 113

_More, Henry, The Life of_, 114

More, Sir Thomas, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 45

_More, The Household of Sir Thomas_, 9

Mores, Edward Rowe, 172, 177

Morgan, Charlotte E., 231

Morwen, Dr. John, 11

_Mother's Legacie to her Unborne Childe, The_, 29

_Mother's Will to an Unborn Child, The_, 95

Mozans, H. J., 1, 4, 6

Mulcaster, Richard, 17, 426

_Muses' Library, The_, 189-93, 421

Naish Court, 270

Nelson, Robert, 303

_New Atalantis, The_, 119, 151, 209, 210

Newbery, John, 89, 435

Newcastle, Duchess of, 45, 46-54, 127-28, 141, 326, 393, 425, 428,

430, 434, 439, 451

Newcome, Mrs., 104

_New English Drama_, 136

_New General Biographical Dictionary_, 5, 368

_New Help to Discourse_, 25

_New Shakspere Society Series_, 24

Nichols, John, 103, 104, 170, 171, 172, 178, 179, 180, 181, 183,

187, 193, 243, 246, 251

_Nine Muses; or Poems on the Death of John Dryden_, 106

Norris, John, 100, 101, 107, 297, 452

North, The Hon. Miss Dudleya, 143, 365, 450, 451

North, Mary, 59-61, 428, 450

North, Roger, 60, 440

_Norths, The Lives of the_, 60, 440

_Notabilità e della eccellenza delle donne e difetti degli uomini_,

27

_Notes and Queries_, 21, 25, 26, 29, 43, 44, 77, 89, 93, 119, 162,

188

_Numismata_, 20, 141, 364

_Occasional Thoughts_, 101, 102

Ogilvius, Johannes, 179

_Old English Scholarship in England from 1566 to 1800_, 176

"Oldwit, Gertrude," 380-82

Oldys, William, 85, 189-90

Opdyke, L. E., 18

_Orations of Divers Sorts_, 50

"Orinda," 53, 54-59, 63, 64, 139, 141, 154, 160, 162, 257, 433, 438,

444, 451.

_See_ Mrs. Katherine Philips

_Oroonoko_, 130-31

_Osborne, Dorothy_, 51, 58, 61-66, 80, 155, 156, 157, 400-01, 428,

432, 440

Osborne, Mrs. Sarah, 62, 156-57

Overbury, Sir Thomas, 23

Overing, Mrs., 259

Pakington, Lady, 66-67, 80, 316, 317, 365, 428, 433, 443, 444, 450

"Pamela," 338

Paper-cutting, 261, 271-72

_Paradise Lost_, 25

Parker, Chief Justice, 178

Parr, Queen Catherine, 8, 14

_Partonope of Blois_, 3

_Patch-work Screen, A_, 161, 162, 262

Patroness, The, 22, 28, 432-33

_Pearl, A Chain of_, 35-36

"Peggy's" Accounts, 43

Pell, John, 277

Pembroke, Countess of, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 326, 364

Pen, Miss Margaret, 86, 87

Pendarves, Mrs. (_See_ Delany, Mrs.)