Table of Contents

1. Anna Maria van Schurman. A historical survey of her reception since the seventeenth century.- 2. ‘An exceptional mind’. The learned Anna Maria van Schurman.- 3. The first Dutch feminist tract? Anna Maria van Schurman’s discussion of women’s aptitude for the study of arts and sciences.- 4. ‘Et ses artistes mains …’. The art of Anna Maria van Schurman.- 5. ‘O Utreght, Lieve Stad …’. Poems in Dutch by Anna Maria van Schurman.- 6. ‘Now as for the faint rumours of fame attached to my name …’. The Eukleria as autobiography.- 7. Anna Maria van Schurman’s ‘reformation’ of philosophy.- 8. On Anna Maria van Schurman’s ‘right choice’.- 9. ‘If she had been a man …’. Anna Maria van Schurman in the social and literary life of her age.- Chronology of events.- List of illustrations.

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