sentences:  Because of their efforts as well as the rise in female literacy, the literary world entered into the debate about women.The full name under which the "Essay" was first published is "An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex, In Which are Inserted the Characters of a Pendant, a Squire, a Beau, a Vertuoso, a Poetaster, a City-Critick, &C.", in a letter to a lady.Published in London by Roper and E[lizabeth] Wilkinson in 1696, the author was listed only as "a Lady."