Russell, Dora. The Tamarisk Tree: My Quest for Liberty and Love. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1975.
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Hypatia
Standard Name: Hypatia
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Dora Russell | This polemic was heavily influenced by her reading of Euripides
' Medea during her adolescence, and by her later outlook on modern sex education, marriage, and motherhood. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Tollet | Her long feminist polemic Hypatia was written in response to an ongoing controversy between radical John Toland
and reactionary Thomas Lewis
(both equally at odds with Tollet's thinking). Toland praised Hypatia and excoriated the persecuting... |
| Textual Features | Rachel Speght | The form of a dream or vision had been used in a fairly similar way in the Scots language by Elizabeth Melvill
in 1603. RS
's Dreame, in six-line stanzas, allegorizes a woman's longing... |
| Textual Production | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | While at finishing school she was inspired, by finding her classmates shallow, to write a feminist poem, Hypatia, expressing her opposition to marriage. |
Timeline
1650
The Polish astronomer Maria Cunitz
, sometimes called the second Hypatia, published her Urania Propitia, which builds on the work of Johannes Kepler
.
By June 1753
There was published anonymously Hypatia
; or, the history of a most beautiful, most virtuous, most learned, and every way accomplished lady.
January 1852-April 1853