Mary Astell

1666–1731

English feminist writer (1666-1731)

writer · philosopher · women's rights activist

Born in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contemporaries

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• Isaac Newton (1643–1727)
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
• Voltaire (1694–1778)
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
• Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
• Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778)
• John Locke (1632–1704)
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716)

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