A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, For the Advancement of Their True and Greatest Interest
By Mary Astell

Markup and correction by Students and Staff of the University of Virginia, John O'Brien, Rachel Retica
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London, England : Printed for R. Wilkin at the King's Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1694This text is based on transcriptions created by the Early English Books Online Texts Creation Partnership, a library-based project directed by the University of Michigan and Oxford University, via http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A26092.0001.001. Page images are sourced from Yale University's Beineke Library.Online: Beineke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ndSelected page images are drawn from this edition, available in full from Yale's digital collections online at https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/16590941.

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Astell, Mary. A Serious Proposal To the Ladies, For the Advancement of their true and greatest Interest, Printed for R. Wilkin at the King's Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1694 . Literature in Context: An Open Anthology. http://anthologydev.lib.virginia.edu/work/Astell/astell-serious-proposal. Accessed: 2024-04-28T17:32:27.061Z

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[TP] A Serious
PROPOSAL
To the
Ladies,
For the Advancement of their true and greatest Interest.
 By a Lover of her SEX.
 LONDON
 Printed for R. Wilkin at
the King's Head in St. Paul's
Churchyard, 1694.
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