John Locke

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

Here the gothic element is much strengthened. The story takes place before the time of Martin Luther . Young girls are immured in a convent because of an older woman's envy of their beauty, and...

Apparently, HM 's family sent her to Bristol without informing her that she would be gone for such a long period. In Mrs Rankin, whom she refers to in her Autobiography as her Aunt Kentish

Boyer made the ascription in the 1705 volume of his annual series The History of the Reign of Queen Anne. Masham claimed in her preface to have written this work (during leisure Hours)...

It is therefore in defiance of reason, in a world in which the Gross of Mankind do not live in accordance with the Rule of Nature, educated women pay for their knowledge with...

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...

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.

Damaris Cudworth (later DM ) sent John Locke a pastoral narrative poem entitled On Damons Loveing of Clora: nearly two pages in octosyllabic couplets.

Damaris Cudworth (later DM ) addressed to Locke a long poem wittily discussing the relationship between the sexes; she sent it to him more than a year after writing it, with one of her several...

DM published, again anonymously, her Occasional Thoughts in Reference to a Vertuous or Christian Life: Abel Boyer erroneously ascribed it to Locke .

A new edition of DM 's anonymous Christian Life was published as Thoughts on a Christian Life, attributed to John Locke, Esq.

DM was taught by men of great ability: first by her father, Ralph Cudworth , and then from her early twenties by John Locke . She mentions that she had spent most of my Life...

Damaris Cudworth (later DM ) probably met John Locke about 1681. They began a correspondence the following year, and their friendship lasted until Locke's death. He soon began calling her his Governess—perhaps jokingly, since...

At his death on 28 October 1704, Locke left sizeable legacies to DM and her son.

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.