"Affliction, the sincerest Friend, the frankest Monitor, the best Instructer and indeed the only useful School that Women are ever put to, rouses her understanding, opens her Eyes, fixes her Attention, and diffuses such a Light, such a Joy into her Mind, as not only Informs her better, but Entertains her more than ever her Ruel did, tho' crouded by the Men of Wit."
Some Reflections Upon Marriage
6 entries in ESTC (1700, 1703, 1706, 1730).<br>
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<u>Some Reflections Upon Marriage, Occasion'd by the Duke & Dutchess of Mazarine's Case; Which Is Also Consider'd.</u> (London: Printed for John Nutt near Stationers-Hall, 1700). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/R32824">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/astell/marriage/marriage.html">Link to Penn's Women Writers</a>&gt