Astell muutti 20-vuotiaana asumaan Lontoon Chelseaan. Hän kirjoitti kirjoja ja pamfletteja, joissa hän käsitteli muun muassa naisten koulutusta ja avioliittoa.[2]
Astell julkaisi ensimmäisen teoksensa Letters Concerning the Love of God vuonna 1695.[2] Hän kuoli rintasyöpään vuonna 1731.[1]
A Serious Proposal To The Ladies For the Advancement of their True and greatest Interest (1696)
Letters Concerning the Love of God (1695)
A Serious Proposal To The Ladies For the Advancement of their True and greatest Interest Part II (1697)
Some Reflections upon Marriage Occasioned by the Duke and Duchess of Mazarine's Case (1700)
Moderation Truly Stated: A Review of a Late Pamphlet Entitul'd 'Moderation a Vertue' with a Prefatory Discourse to Dr D'Avenant Concerning His Late Essays on Peace and War (1704)
An Impartial Enquiry into the Causes of Rebellion and Civil War in the Kingdom (1704)
A Fair Way with Dissenters and their Patrons (1704)
A Fair Way with the Dissenters and their Patrons (1704)
An Impartial Enquiry in to the Cause of Rebellion and Civil War in this Kingdom and Moderation truly Stated
The Christian Religion, as Profess'd by a Daughter of the Church of England (1705)