The Convent of Pleasure

Sharon L. Jansen is Professor Emerita of English, Pacific Lutheran University, and the author most recently of Mary Astell: A Serious Proposal to the Ladies; Mary Astell: Reflections upon Marriage; Reading Women’s Worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing; Debating Women, Politics, and Power in Early Modern Europe; and The Monstrous Regiment of Women: Female Rulers in Early Modern Europe.