Of privileges and masculine parts: the learned lady in Aphra Behn's Sir Patient Fancy.(Critical essay)

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In his "Preface of the Author" in The Six Days Adventure, or The New Utopia (1671), Edward Howard observes that there are "not seldome to be found as great abilities in them [women] (allowing for the disadvantage they have in not being suitably educated to letters,) as are to be observ'd in men of greatest comprehensions" (4). Aphra Behn takes a similar line in her preface to The Dutch Lover (1673): "[W]aving the examination, why women having equal education with men, were not as capable of knowledge, of whatever sort as well as they: I'l only say as I have touch'd before, ...

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