D.

THE

PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE

UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

ILLUSTRATED BY

FEMALE EXAMPLES.

BEING A CONTINUATION OF THE

'PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE UNDER DIFFICULTIES, ILLUSTRATED

BY ANECDOTES.'

BY G. L. CRAIK, M. A.

LONDON:

C. COX, 12, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND.

1847.

BODL LIBR
11DE 1016
OXFORD

London: Printed by W. CLOWES and SONS, Stamford Street.

INTRODUCTION

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Controversy about the Capacity of Women-Female

Speculative Writers-Margaret Duchess of New-

castle

Page

7

19

CHAPTER II.

Other Female Theological and Philosophical Writers. 68

CHAPTER III.

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Female Critics -Letter-writers Historians-Orators

-Jurists-Medical Practitioners - Physiologists-

Naturalists-Mathematicians-Astronomers

CHAPTER IV.

Female Classical Scholars

CHAPTER V.

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