and discourse of her time. Other holdings are at the British Library and the Northamptonshire Record Office. The Mary Astell Academy (formerly Linhope PRU) in Linhope Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, is named after her. There is also a Mary-Astell-Straße in Bremen, Germany. References Bibliography Astell, Mary. The Christian Religion, as Professed by a Daughter of the Church of England. Ed. Jacqueline Broad. Toronto: CRRS and Iter, 2013. . Astell, Mary. A Serious Proposal to the Ladies. Ed. Patricia Springborg. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2002. . Broad, Jacqueline. The Philosophy of Mary Astell: An Early Modern Theory of Virtue. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. . Hill, Bridget. The First English Feminist: "Reflections Upon Marriage" and Other Writings by Mary Astell. Aldershot: Gower Publishing, 1986. Hill, Bridget. "A Refuge from Men: The Idea of a Protestant Nunnery". Past and Present 117 (1987): 107–30. James, Regina. "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, Or, Mary Astell and Mary Wollstonecraft Compared". Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture 5 (1976): 121–39. Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. . Smith, Florence M. Mary Astell. New York: Columbia University Press, 1916. Springborg, Patricia. Mary Astell (1666–1731), Political Writings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Springborg, Patricia. "Mary Astell and John Locke," in Steven Zwicker (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650 to 1750. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Springborg, Patricia, Mary Astell: Theorist of Freedom from Domination (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005). Stone Stanton, Kamille. "'Affliction, the Sincerest Friend': Mary Astell’s Philosophy of Women’s Superiority through Martyrdom." Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism. Special Issue: The Long Restoration. Vol. 29.1. Spring, 2007, pp. 104–114. "‘Capable of Being Kings’: The Influence of the Cult of King Charles I on the Early Modern Women's Literary Canon." New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century. Vol 5.1. Spring 2008, pp. 20–29. Sutherland, Christine. The Eloquence of Mary Astell. University of Calgary Press, 2005. Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith. Edited by William Kolbrener and Michal Michelson. Aldershot, 2007, 230 pp. External links Mary Astell (1666-1731), Project Vox Mary Astell, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Mary Astell(1666–1731) at Great Voyages: History of Western Philosophy Excerpts from Astell's works Project Continua: Biography of Mary Astell Mary Astell episode of In Our Time from 5 November 2020. 1666 births 1731 deaths 17th-century English educators 17th-century English women writers 17th-century English writers 17th-century philosophers 18th-century English educators 18th-century British philosophers 18th-century English women writers