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Mar 08, 2023 Book of the Week — An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex…

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“There remains nothing more, but to shew that there are some necessary Qualifications to be acquir’d, some good Improvements to be made by Ingenious Gentlemen in the Company of our Sex. Of this number are Complacence, Gallantry, Good Humour, Invention, and an Art…” An Essay in...

Mar 30, 2022 Book of the Week — Biographium Fæmineum

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“Souls are of no sex, any more than wit, genius, or any other of the intellectual faculties.” Biographium fæmineum. The Female Worthies: or, Memoirs of the Most Illustrious Ladies, of all ages and nations. London: Printed for S. Crowder, and J. Payne in Paternoster-Row; J. Wilkie, and...