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In page Mary Astell:

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Her proposal was never adopted because critics said it seemed "too Catholic" for the English.[citation needed] Later her ideas about women were satirised in The Tatler by the writer Jonathan Swift.[1] While the writer Daniel Defoe admired the first part of Astell's proposal, he believed that her recommendations were "impracticable". Patricia Springborg notes that Defoe's own recommendation for an academy for women (as detailed in his An Essay Upon Projects) did not significantly differ from Astell's original proposal.[2] Despite this, she was still an intellectual force among the educated classes of London.