 Several of the most important discussions of the emotions in the early modern period involved women, who sometimes raised specific concerns relevant to their status as women. That is the case with Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, whose correspondence pushed Descartes to write on the passions, while pursuing a lengthy discussion of the impact of the emotions on health and reasoning and our ability to control them. Elisabeth also seems to have inspired other writers on the emotions, serving as the dedicatee for the Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul of Man (1640) of Edward Reynolds, the Bishop of Norwich. Both Mary Astell in Letters Concerning the Love of God (1695) and Damaris Cudworth, Lady Masham, in Discourse Concerning the Love of God (1696) took issue with the Malebranchean account of love offered by John Norris, albeit to very different degrees and from different approaches. Later in the eighteenth century, Mary Wollstonecraft’s criticisms of Rousseau specifically addressed some of his views about emotional development and the sexual division of labor in the sentimental education of children. However, since some recent commentators have turned to early modern discussions to understand how the emotions can be conceptually gendered, we should note that many women philosophers of this period showed no unusual interest in the emotions. It does not seem to have been considered a special area of expertise for women.