The profile of the men in co-freemasonry was very similar to the members of all male lodges but what appears to distinguish them was their attitude to women and in particular their belief that freemasonry and the knowledge that it gave should be available to women.PubDate: 2014-03-30Issue No: Vol. 4 (2014) Women in Eighteenth-Century English Freemasonry: the First English Adoption Lodges and their