"Let not your Ladiships be offended that I do not (as some have wittily done) plead for Female Preeminence. To ask too much is the way to be denied all."
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Bathsua Makin
Bathsua Reginald Makin (c. 1600 – c. 1675) was a teacher and writer who contributed to the emerging criticism of woman's position in the domestic and public spheres in 17th-century England.
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