Gilbert Burnet

Both Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough , and Gilbert Burnet were concerned in the payment of CT 's mother's pension, restored under Queen Anne .

CT published A Discourse concerning "A Guide in Controversies", a religious or theological work with a preface by Gilbert Burnet , which belatedly answers The Guide in Controversies, probably 1677, by Abraham Woodhead .

MC told Mary Barber that she would have liked to write the history of her own times (no doubt, says Rumbold, in opposition to the publication of that title by the Whig Gilbert Burnet ).

In the month of AB 's death there appeared her Pindaric Poem to the Reverend Doctor Burnet , on the Honour he did me of Enquiring after me and my Muse.

After James II had fled the country in 1688, AB received a flattering invitation from Gilbert Burnet (who in 1682 had tried to divide her from Anne Wharton on moral grounds) to welcome the new...

Lady Mary sent her translation straight off to Bishop Gilbert Burnet with a request (phrased with proper humility) that he should read and criticise it. His answer does not survive, but he carefully read and...

On her death the same leading publishing house at once re-issued the book in a second edition, with her name, a frontispiece featuring her portrait (engraved by M. Vandergucht after Kneller ), and a memoir...

During the 1690s, long before her involvement with a charity school for poor girls, MA apparently hoped to found a community of serious-minded, self-educating, middle-class, single women, of the kind she recommends in A Serious...

EB began writing a volume of Meditations not long after she had married Gilbert Burnet as her second husband. This survives among her papers in the Bodleian Library, bound in MS Rawlinson D 1092.

Her defence brought praise from Locke himself (of the strength and clarity of her reasoning), a gift of books, and the opening of an actual correspondence. It brought her, too, warm praise from John Toland

Her husband Gilbert Burnet called EBone of the most extraordinary persons that has lived in this age. Though C. Kirchberger in 1949 described her life and thought as a last flowering...

Wharton's warm appreciation carried a hint of good advice to AB : bid your Muse maintain a Vestal Fire. Nevertheless it drew a resounding condemnation of Behn's work from Gilbert Burnet , who took...

Her range of curiosity of wide. Of orthodox Jews she writes, Is not priestcraft the same in all climes, in all ages, in all forms of worship? She believes that politically disturbing plays ought...

Satires on women, she says, are enough, one would imagine, to make the hardest Forehead blush. But American women apparently do not blush, though they are colonial copy-cats in other ways: you mimick Great...

EB 's friendship with Sarah Churchill, later Duchess of Marlborough (like that with her future husband, Gilbert Burnet , and his second wife, Mary ), dated back to the years when they were all in...