Bathsua Reginald Makin (; 1600 – c. 1675) was a teacher who contributed to the emerging criticism of woman's position in the domestic and public spheres in 17th-century England. Herself a highly educated woman, Makin was referred to as England's most learned lady, skilled in Greek, Latin, Hebrew, German, Spanish, French and Italian. Makin argued primarily for the equal right of women and girls to obtain an education in an environment or culture that viewed woman as the weaker vessel, subordinated to man and uneducable. She is most famously known for her polemical treatise entitled An Essay to Revive the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen, in Religion, Manners, Arts & Tongues, with an Answer to the Objections against this Way of Education (1673). Life She was born in 1600 and named after the biblical Bathsheba. Makin was the daughter of Henry Reginald or Reynolds, who was a schoolmaster of a school in Stepney and published a broadsheet of Latin poems and pamphlets on mathematical instruments. In 1616 Makin published Musa Virginea a book with Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, French and German verse. The front piece announced that the author was "Bathsua R{eginald}, daughter of Henry Reginald, a schoolmaster and philologist of London". In 1621 she married Richard Makin, a courtier. The couple moved to Westminster and had eight children. Her sister Ithamaria married the mathematician John Pell in 1632. Makin corresponded with Pell. Manuscripts in the British Library reveal letters from Bathsua signed "your loving sister", along with letters written by Pell in which he refers to Bathsua as "sister". Thus, Makin has been wrongly identified as Pell's sister. Makin maintained close friendships with the physicians George Eglisham and Baldwin Hamey. Employment as teacher By 1640 Makin was known as the most learned woman in England. She was tutor to the children of Charles I of England, and governess to his daughter Elizabeth Stuart. When the English Parliament took Princess Elizabeth Stuart into custody at the beginning of the English Civil War Makin stayed with the girl as her servant. When the princess died in 1650, Makin was granted a pension for her services but was unable to ever collect it. Makin was also tutor to Lady Elizabeth Langham (née Hastings), daughter of Ferdinando Hastings, 6th Earl of Huntingdon, probably until her marriage in 1652. As her husband was absent during the civil war, Makin raised their children alone. He died