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Rachel Speght
Rachel Speght (1597 – death date unknown) was a poet and
polemicist. She was the first Englishwoman to identify herself, by name, as a polemicist and critic of gender ideology. Speght, a
feminist and a
Calvinist, is perhaps best known for her tract ''A Mouzell for Melastomus'' (London, 1617). It is a prose refutation of
Joseph Swetnam's
misogynistic tract, ''The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women'', and a significant contribution to the
Protestant discourse of biblical
exegesis, defending women's nature and the worth of womankind. Speght also published a volume of poetry, ''Mortalities Memorandum with a Dreame Prefixed'' (London, 1621), a Christian reflection on death and a defence of the
education of women.
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