Essays in Defence of the Female Sex

Michèle Lardy did her PhD on The Education of Daughters of the Aristocracy in 17th-century England. She is a lecturer at Université Paris1-Panthéon-Sorbonne, where she teaches the English language as well as English and American civilisation, to students majoring in the humanities. Her research focuses on gender studies, most particularly on 17th-century English proto-feminists and female-authored writings.

Manuela D’Amore Ph.d. is a tenured researcher of English Literature at the University of Catania (Italy). She has translated and edited Eliza Haywood’s Anti-Pamela (1741), W.M. Rossetti’s The P.R.B. Journal (1848-1853), and John Oxenham’s The Cedar Box (1918). The author of essays on Mary Astell, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Eliza Haywood’s Masquerade Novels, and D.G. Rossetti, she has recently worked on 18th century English travellers to America.