Backscheider, Paula R. “Stretching the Form: Catharine Trotter Cockburn and Other Failures”. Theatre Journal, Vol.
47
, pp. 443-58. 447
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Dedications | Catharine Trotter | CT
finished her treatise by the beginning of this year. Backscheider, Paula R. “Stretching the Form: Catharine Trotter Cockburn and Other Failures”. Theatre Journal, Vol. 47 , pp. 443-58. 447 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
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 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catharine Trotter | |
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... |
Wealth and Poverty | Catharine Trotter | The religious writer and diarist Elizabeth Burnet
, who had already discussed CT
's writing with John Locke
, wrote to ask him to contribute four or five guineas for what sounds like a subscription for Trotter. Locke, John. The Correspondence of John Locke. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Clarendon. 7: 702 |
Textual Production | Catharine Trotter | CT
made her first anonymous foray into philosophical debate, with A Defence of the Essay of Human Understanding, Written by Mr. Lock. Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate. 15 and n10 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Production | Catharine Trotter | Catharine Cockburn (formerly CT
) published (as the author of A Defence of Mr. Lock
's Essay of Humane Understanding) A Letter to Dr. [Winch] Holdsworth: her first publication since her marriage in 1708. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Friends, Associates | Catharine Trotter | During her London years she was an ally of Damaris Masham
, but quarrelled with Delarivier Manley
. She found both a patron and a friend in Sarah, Lady Piers
(who wrote poetry herself). She... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Thomas | These letters provide a vivid picture of |
Education | Emily Shirreff | William Grey
, the girls' cousin and Maria's future husband, encouraged them to study philosophy, particularly the writings of Francis Bacon
and John Locke
. A cousin of their father, Sir William Hall Gage
... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah, Lady Pennington | The letter after the first of Alphonso's, addressed by Mrs P— to a male correspondent, is a kind of philosophical essay, which takes issue with Locke
over the belief that intellectual ideas are derived from... |
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 | 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 Production | Frances Reynolds | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Phillips | In this poem she calls on the monarch to make himself truly happy by opposing war and slavery, and by supporting missions. She opens vividly with a fantasy of how she herself would behave if... |