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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Astell | Astell expanded her Advertisement to mention with appreciation the reign of a female monarch, Anne
. Her preface challenges the opinions of John Locke
. It contains her famous question as to how women can... |
Textual Production | Mary Astell | The full title is The Christian Religion, As Professed by a Daughter of the Church of England
. Containing Proper Directions for the due Behaviour of Women in every Station of Life with remarks on... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Astell | From Astell's own viewpoint this would have been her most important work; it represents the distillation of her religious and philosophical opinions. It follows in the tradition of Bathsua Makin
's Essay to Revive the... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Burnet | EB
was born into an English gentry family. John Fell
, Bishop of Oxford (remembered as a scholar and an energetic reformer and upholder of standards at Oxford University
and the University Press
), was... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Burnet | In ordinary company EB
made no display of her knowledge, but she could talk to eminent churchmen as if she had equally studied the same Subject with them. O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press. 52 |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | Her choice of Descartes is interesting in view of his particular interest for such proto-feminist writers as Mary Astell
in the early eighteenth century. Her other two essays on philosophy were about John Locke
and... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Cooper | The title continues . . . Or a Series of English Poetry, from the Saxons, to the Reign of King Charles II, Containing the Lives and Characters of all the known Writers in that Interval... |
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 |
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... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Hamilton | This was published at Bath and London. EH
did serious historical research for this book, reading all the Roman history she could find in English and even commissioning translations. There was already women's work... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rose Hickman | The philosopher John Locke
was descended from RH
's father. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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... |