 | Bridget Hill - 2001 - 246 pages
...learning effectively suppressed the desire for education in many women. As Bathsua Makin observed, 'A Learned woman is thought to be a Comet that bodes Mischief whenever it appears.'14 We must appreciate the pressures against women displaying their learning in any way and... | |
 | Marlene LeGates - 2001 - 420 pages
...analyzes examples of such women from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Women and Learning A learned Woman is thought to be a Comet, that bodes Mischief, when ever it appears. BATHSUA MAKIN, 1673 The rise of universities, open only to men, in the twelfth... | |
 | Mary Astell - 2002 - 308 pages
...theAntient Education ofGentlewomen (1673, sig. A2) To offer to the World the liberal Education ofWomen is to deface the Image of God in Man, it will make Women so high, and men so low, like Fire in the House-top, it will set the whole world in a Flame. 3 René Descartes (1596-1650), French philosopher... | |
 | Colin Bingham - 2006 - 428 pages
...improvement by education as they are. It is looked upon as a monstrous thing to pretend the contrary. A learned woman is thought to be a comet, that bodes mischief whenever it appears. BATHSHUA A!AKIN, 1673 Where is the fault in women seeking after learning? Why are they not to be valued... | |
 | Carol Wayne White - 2012 - 172 pages
...women are not endued with such reason as men; nor capable of improvement by education, as they are. ... A learned woman is thought to be a comet, that bodes mischief whenever it appears.13 Makin reiterated a theme that would become a dominant one among those women who published... | |
 | 1893 - 788 pages
...improvement by Education, as they are. It is lookt upon as a monstrous thing, to pretend the contrary." " A learned Woman is thought to be a Comet, that bodes...Image of God in Man, it will make Women so high, and uien so low, like Fire in the House-Top it will set the whole world in a Flame." " These things and... | |
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A learned woman is thought to be a comet that bodes mischief whenever it appears. To offer to the world the liberal education of women is to deface the image of God in man, it will make women so high, and men so low, like fire in the house-top, it will... 
