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In the following article we elected to study with NooJ the lexis of a 17 thcentury text, Mary Astell's seminal essay, A Serious Proposal to the Ladies,part I, published in 1694. We first focused on the semantics to see how Astellbuilds her vindication of the female sex, which words she uses to sensitisewomen to their alienated condition and promote their education. Then we studiedthe morphology of the lexemes (which is different from contemporary English)used by the author, thanks to the NooJ tools we have devised for this purpose.NooJ has great functionalities for lexicographic work. Its commands and graphsprove to be most efficient in the spotting of archaic words or variants inspelling. Introduction In our previous articles, we have studied thesingularities of 17 th century English within the framework of a diachronicanalysis thanks to syntactical and morphological graphs and thanks to thedictionaries we have compiled from a corpus that may be expanded overtime. Ourearly work was based on a limited corpus of English travel literature to Greecein the 17 th century. This article deals with a late seventeenth century textwritten by a woman philosopher and essayist, Mary Astell (1666--1731),considered as one of the first English feminists. Astell wrote her essay at atime in English history when women were "the weaker vessel" and their mainbusiness in life was to charm and please men by their looks and submissiveness.In this essay we will see how NooJ can help us analyse Astell's rhetoric (whatpoint of view does she adopt, does she speak in her own name, in the name ofall women, what is her representation of men and women and their relationshipsin the text, what are the goals of education?). Then we will turn our attentionto the morphology of words in the text and use NooJ commands and graphs tocarry out a lexicographic inquiry into Astell's lexemes.

Mary Astell's words in A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (part I), a lexicographic inquiry with NooJ