... Vives, reflects the views prevalent among male humanist educators at that time when he writes in his book Instruction of a Christian Woman that Renaissance women can please their husbands by reading the classics to learn good manners and should focus on the holy scriptures to learn moral philosophy. To make matters worse, women were frequently portrayed as sinful daughters of Eve ... women's education prevailed until the end of the Renaissance period. For example, later in the sixteenth century, Anne Higginson wrote a letter that reflected the view that women's education consisted of re...

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... talented, rich women of France. As harsh censorship suppressed the fiery hearts of all who desired to read the masses of books that spread throughout a time sometimes known as the "reading revolution, " these dedicated women held meetings in their salons in order to encourage the penetration of the unfair censorship by freely exploring all types of literature and exchanging uncorrupted opinions ... ...

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