Collected Poems and Prose 
Mary Lee Chudleigh
(1656 - 1710)
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Mary Lee Chudleigh was part of a group of intellectual women around Dryden, together with among others, Elizabeth Thomas, Mary Astell and Elizabeth Elstob. She started writing later in her life, and published The Ladies Defence: or the Bride-Woman's Counsellor answered: A Poem. In a Dialogue Between Sir John Brute, Sir William Loveall, Melissa, and a Parson (1701). The Poem is a response to the misogynist preachings at a wedding seremony by John Sprint (1699).
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- 1701 - The Ladies Defence: or the Bride - Woman's Counsellor answered: In a Dialogue Between Sir John Brute, Sir William Loveall, Melissa, and a Parson.
- 1703 - The Ladies' Defence, Poems on Several Occasions
- 1710 - Essays upon Several Subjects
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Sunshine for women
Site Margaret Ezell
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Secondary literature
- George Ballard (1752) Memoirs of Several ladies of Great Britain Who Have Been celebrated for Their Writing or Skill in the Learned Langauged, Arts, and Science, Detroit, Wayne State Press (1985).
- Margaret J. M. Ezell (ed.) (1993) The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
- Moira Ferguson (1985) First Feminists: British Women Writers 1578 - 1799, Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Press.
- Hilda L. Smith (1982) Reason's Disciplies, Seventeenth - Century English Feminism, Urbana, University of Illinois
- Arthur Lonsdale (ed.) (1989) Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology, New York, Oxford University Press.
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