She wrote as Mr Wotton; her subtitle calls attention to her work's relation to Lord Shaftesbury
's Letter Concerning Enthusiasm.
Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press, 1986.
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This work was in the past sometimes attributed to William Wotton
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Textual Production
Elizabeth Elstob
In 1708, the year of her Scudéry translation, George Hickes
had some of EE
's work printed in a scholarly text known as Conspectus brevis by William Wotton
, which condensed Hickes's own Grammatica Anglo-Saxonica...