Wrapping up the Enlightenment

Wrapping up the Enlightenment

by Megan McGunigle

​Women and the Enlightenment

• Women during the Enlightenment​ had limited rights

  • ​Could not own property

  • ​Limited legal rights

• ​The Enlightenment also left women out.

• ​Despite being left out, women still helped to spread the ideals of the Enlightenment

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​Marie Therese Geoffrin

• ​One of the most influential salon hostesses.

• Her salon was at the ​Hôtel de Rambouillet 

• ​Married to a rich manufacturer

• ​Financed Denis Diderot's Encyclopedia

​Mary Astell

• English writer

• Published A Serious Proposal to the Ladies in 1694​

• ​Her work addressed the lack of education opportunities for women at the time.

• ​She also criticized the unequal position between men and women in marriage.

​Mary Wollstonecraft

• ​Another English writer

• ​Published an essay titled A Vindication of the Rights of Women in 1792

• ​Urged women to enter male dominated fields such as medicine and politics.

• Argued that education would make women virtuous and useful.

​Emilie Du Chatelet

• French aristocrat

• Trained as a mathematician and ​physicist

• ​Translated Isaac Newton's work from Latin to French

• ​Responsible for sparking interest in the sciences in France

​Monarchy and the Enlightenment

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​Catherine the Great

• ​An Enlightened Despot

• ​Ruled from 1762-1796

• ​Read great works of Philosophes

• ​Had a correspondence with Voltaire

• ​Still, ruled with absolute authority.

• ​Reformed Russia

• ​Won Russia control of Black Sea