Jane West
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Jane West (1758-1852), also known as Mrs. West, was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and writer of educational tracts.
She is known as a conservative and anti-Jacobin writer who advocated expanded education for women. Although her early work was praised by Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Hays, they later came into conflict over revolutionary politics. Her most famous works are The Advantages of Education, of the History of Maria Williams (1793), The Gossip's Story (1796), Letters to a Young Man (1801), and Alicia de Lacy: an historical romance (1814).
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