327. Eighteenth-Century Women's Literature
Aphra Behn's The Rover, Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman (published in 1792), Mary Astell's A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Lady Mary Wortley Montague's venomous broadsides in Nonsense all demonstrate the resurrection and restoration to literary prominence of the rich body of works crafted, published and even staged by women in the 18th century. After more than 150 years of neglect, the independent, daring, and sometimes shocking works of women.