Judith Drake (fl. 1670s–1723) was an English intellectual and author who was active in the last decade of the 17th century. 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.[1] She was married to James Drake F.R.S., physician and Tory pamphleteer.[2] She is remembered in the field of feminist literature for her 1696 essay, An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex.[3]