Republic of Women : Rethinking the Republic of Letters in the Seventeenth Century (Paperback)

Prologue; Introduction; 1. Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia: an ephemeral academy at The Hague in the 1630s; 2. Anna Maria van Schurman: the birth of an intellectual network; 3. Marie de Gournay, Marie du Moulin, and Anna Maria van Schurman: constructing intellectual kinship; 4. Dorothy Moore of Dublin: an expanding network in the 1640s; 5. Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh: many networks, one 'incomparable' instrument; 6. Bathsua Makin: female scholars and the reformation of learning; 7. Endings: the closing of doors; Conclusions.