Owen Feltham (1602 – 23 February 1668) was an English writer, author of a book entitled Resolves, Divine, Moral, and Political (c. 1620), containing 146 short essays.
Feltham was for a time in the household of the Earl of Thomond as chaplain or secretary, and published Brief Character of the Low Countries (1652).
Later revisions reflect how Feltham attempted to amalgamate these three distinct dimensions of “middle-class English life”, divine, ethical and political, into a cohesive whole.
In the 1628 edition, which includes the resolve “Of Woman”, Feltham asks: “Whence proceed the most abhorred villainies, but from a masculine unblushing impudence?
Is not this injustice?” In the 1661 edition the 85th resolve, "Of Marriage and Single Life", Feltham writes: "A wise wife comprehends both sexes: she is a woman for her body, and she is a man within: for her soul is like her Husbands.