Mary Astell is discussed by the author as an example of an eighteenth-century feminist historian A. who was representative of the intellectual interests of the woman historians of her time B. who inspired many practitioners of herstory in the twentieth century C. who shared with modern herstorian's a mistaken assumption regarding the writing of history D. whose major work aroused much controversy at the time of its publication E. whose major work still has not received the attention from scholars that it deserves