Anne Conway

14 December 1631 - 23 February 1679

Standard Name: Conway, Anne

Birth Name: Anne Finch

Married Name: Anne Conway

Titled: Anne, Viscountess Conway

AC 's reputation has been quietly growing into that of a serious late-seventeenth-century philosopher, rather than merely a patron of male philosophers. Her correspondence with Henry More is full of philosophical as well as personal interest.

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Cultural formation	William Law	He became a Church of England clergyman, but after the accession of George I he refused to take the oath of allegiance (since he was a Jacobite). This made him a Nonjuror, ineligible for positions...
Education	Mary Astell	MA never attended school. Apart from sewing and the Bible, she was also taught theology and philosophy (of the school of the Cambridge Platonists, like Anne Conway 's friend Henry More ) by her uncle...
Education	Lady Hester Pulter	Mark Robson in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography observes that LHP was an educated and highly literate woman. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Whatever her teaching amounted to when she was a child (and her sister Margaret seems to...
Family and Intimate relationships	Brilliana, Lady Harley	BLH 's brother, later Edward, second Viscount Conway (who died in 1684), became the father-in-law and friend of the philosopher Anne Conway . George, Margaret. Women in the First Capitalist Society. University of Illinois Press, 1988. 202n4 Scholar Margaret George says Marjorie Hope Nicolson , editor of The...
Reception	May Drummond	From the first, however, MD 's preaching was polarizing, attracting not only praise but also criticism more hostile than Cookworthy's. She was blamed for her social manner, for being visibly of a higher rank than...
Reception	Hildegarde of Bingen	In recent times she has made a rapid transition from being unknown to being fashionable for her music and moderately well known for her writings. Her letters were edited in English translation in 1994 and...
Textual Features	Rose Macaulay	This is her sole historical novel and the only one to reflect her long-standing interest in the seventeenth century. Set between October 1640 and May 1641, the period of the Long Parliament, the novel portrays...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Antonia Fraser	The chapter When Women Preach discusses Lady Eleanor Douglas and (in more detail) Anna Trapnel . Petticoat-Authors (about the Restoration period) makes a number of mis-statements (understandable errors that would not have been made at...

Timeline

By September 1887

William Walker published at AberdeenThe Bards of Bon-Accord, 1375-1860, a history of poetry in Aberdeenshire, which had already appeared serially in the Herald and Weekly Free Press.

The volume is dated from...

Texts

Conway, Anne. “Introduction”. The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy, edited by Allison P. Coudert and Taylor Corse, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. vii - xxxiii.

Conway, Anne, and Henry More. “Introduction; Editorial Materials”. The Conway Letters, edited by Sarah Hutton, Marjorie Hope Nicolson, and Marjorie Hope Nicolson, Revised, Clarendon Press, 1992, p. vii - xix; various pages.

Conway, Anne. “Principia philosophiae”. Opuscula philosophica, 1690.

Nicolson, Marjorie Hope, and Anne Conway. “Prologue”. The Conway Letters, edited by Sarah Hutton and Sarah Hutton, Clarendon Press, 1992, p. xxiii - xxix.

Conway, Anne, Henry More, and Marjorie Hope Nicolson. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Clarendon Press, 1992.

Conway, Anne. The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy. Editor Loptson, Peter, Martinus Nijhoff, 1982.