Locke, John. The Correspondence of John Locke. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Clarendon.
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Textual Production | Damaris Masham | Damaris Cudworth (later DM
) wrote the first of her extant, sparkling letters to John Locke
. She used the name Philoclea, and occasionally called him Philander. Locke, John. The Correspondence of John Locke. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Clarendon. 2: 472-3 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Burnet | To John Locke
, early in the eighteenth century, she sends detailed criticism of his writing and requests for a parallel comment and revision on papers of her own. When, however, he appears unwilling to... |
Textual Features | Judith Drake | Its boldness in argument—seeking to lift women to an Equallity [sic] Drake, Judith. An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex. A. Roper, E. Wilkinson, and R. Clavel, http://U of A, Special Collections. A2 |
Textual Features | Catharine Trotter | The letters published by Birch reflect an intellect dealing in literary as well as moral debate. To Thomas Burnet of KemnayCT
wrote of religious and philosophical matters; he was her link to currents of... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Heyrick | She does not eschew politics on account of her readers' youth, but delivers an anti-war and anti-imperial message: The finest sight that could possibly be exhibited to me on earth, would be not a great... |
Textual Features | Frances Arabella Rowden | An advertisement (dated at Iver in Buckinghamshire on 3 September 1820) Rowden, Frances Arabella. A Biographical Sketch of the Most Distinguished Writers of Ancient and Modern Times. 1829, iv |
Textual Features | Samuel Johnson | This was not the first dictionary of English, but its predecessors had remained more or less close to the model of a word-list, omitting common words or any attempt to distinguish one idiomatic usage from... |
Textual Features | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | This novel is largely autobiographical, and contains an unsympathetic portrait of the author's mother, radical feminist Anna Wheeler
, in the character of Aunt Marley. The school that Rosina attended is also portrayed as a... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Thomas | These letters provide a vivid picture of |
Reception | Damaris Masham | DM
has only recently begun to be taken seriously as a writer on philosophy. Her relation with Locke
in terms of philosophical opinions has been discussed by Sheryl O'Donnell
in Mothering the Mind, edited... |
Occupation | Anne-Thérèse de Lambert | In her second rue de Richelieu, residence, ATL
established a Tuesday salon which became, especially after 1710, a leader in French society and culture. She sought to emulate the salons of the marquise de Rambouillet |
Literary responses | Catharine Trotter | 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 |
Literary responses | Damaris Masham | Norris
, who thought this book was by Locke
, wrote complaining of its Spleen and Prejudice and of the Disdain and Contempt with which he was treated in it. Locke, John. The Correspondence of John Locke. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Clarendon. 2: 471 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Fielding | She dedicated it to the court lady Anna Maria Poyntz
. It may perhaps be the Book Upon Education Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xli. xxxix |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Gaskell | The idea of self-improvement through writing and reading correlates to the strong emphasis in EG
's fiction on education and the impact of environment. This was undoubtedly influenced by a Unitarian intellectual background indebted to... |
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