sentences:  She was part of a circle of intellectuals, authors, and philosophers which included Mary Astell, Lady Mary Chudleigh, Elizabeth Thomas, Elizabeth Elstob, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and John Norris.She was married to James Drake F.R.S., physician and Tory pamphleteer.She is remembered in the field of feminist literature for her 1696 essay, "An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex".