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Women, the republic of letters, and the public sphere in the mid-seventeenth century
Criticism, Spring, 2004 by David Norbrook
(17.) Citations in the text are from Anna Maria van Schurman, Whether a Christian Woman Should be Educated and Other Writings, ed. Joyce L. Irwin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998). For further information, see Pieta van Beek, "Alpha Virginum: Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678)," in Women Writing Latin: From Roman Antiquity to Early Modern Europe, vol. 3, Early Modern Women Writing Latin, ed. Laurie J. Churchill, Phyllis R. Brown, and Jane E. Jeffrey (New York: Routledge, 2002), 271-93.
(18.) David W. Davies, The World of the Elzeviers, 1580-1672 (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1954).
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(19.) Van Schurman, Opuscula (Utrecht, 1652), in Whether a Christian Woman Should be Educated, 45. On the significance of this distinction, see Michele Le Doeuff, Le sexe du savoir (Paris: Aubier, 1998), 243 ff.; on the limits of van Schurman's feminism, 53-87.
(20.) Lisa Jardine, "Women Humanists: Education for What?" in Feminism and Renaissance Studies, ed. Lorna Hutson (Oxford, 1999), 48-81, also in Anthony Grafton and Lisa Jardine, From Humanism to the Humanities: Education and the Liberal Arts in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Europe (London, 1986). For a fuller analysis of the correspondence see David Norbrook, "Autonomy and the Republic of Letters: Michele Le Doeuff, Anna Maria van Schurman, and the History of Women Intellectuals," Australian Journal of French Studies 40 (2003): 275-87.
(21.) Van Schurman, Whether a Christian Woman Should be Educated, 49; Opuscula, 66.
(22.) Van Schurman, Whether a Christian Woman Should be Educated, 42-43.
(23.) De Briefwisseling van Constantijn Huygens (1608-1687), ed. J. A. Worp, 6 vols. (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1911-17), 5:186-87; van 8churman, Opuscula, 213, cited by Katie Whitaker, Mad Madge: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Royalist, Writer and Romantic? (London: Chatto and Windus, 2002), 121. Kathleen Jones, A Glorious Fame: The Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673 (London: Bloomsbury, 1988), 57, suggests that Gournay's religious skepticism is echoed in The Worlds Olio.
(24.) Margaret Cavendish, Natures Pictures (London, 1655), 187; Margaret Cavendish, Plays (London, 1662), 653; Douglas Grant, Margaret the First: A Biography of Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673 (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957), 218
(25.) Anna Maria Battigelli, Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998); Emma L. E. Rees, Margaret Cavendish: Genderg Genre, Exile (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003).
(26.) Pieter Geyl, The Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century, 2nd ed., 2 vols. (London: Ernest Benn, 1961), 1:115.
(27.) For the correspondence with Gassendi. see van Schurman, Opuscula (Utrecht, 1652), 206-8.
(28.) Linda Timmermans, L'acci's des femmes d la culture (1598-1715) de saint Francois de Sales a la Marquise de Lambert, Bibliotheque de la Renaissance Serie 3 tome 25 (Paris: Honore Champion, 1993), 703 ff.
