During the five years of their engagement, John Austin decided that Sarah was in need of a rigorous intellectual education in accordance with his religious, political, and philosophical bent of mind.
Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton.
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He provided her...
Education
Kathleen Nott
Meanwhile KN
read for herself outside the syllabus while she was at Oxford, particularly Dante
and French literature, and composed intellectual biographies of philosophers like Hume
and Kant
.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
66465 (24 February 1999): 23
Nott, Kathleen. A Soul in the Quad. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
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Cultural formation
Alison Cockburn
She belonged to the established Church of Scotland
(that is, Presbyterian). She was not, however, an orthodox Calvinist; she had enough belief to combat the atheism of her friend David Hume
, but not such...
