Anne Conway

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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.
Painting thought to be of Anne Conway by Samuel van Hoogstraten, c. 1662-7. She stands reading a letter in the open loggia of a palace or mansion, with columns and statues indicating a garden beyond. She wears a golden gown. In the foreground is a spaniel, which if indeed Conway's was called Julietto. The Mauritshuis Art Museum in The Hague, Netherlands.

Milestones

14 December 1631

The future philosopher AC was born as Anne Finch at Kensington House in London, the youngest in her family, just a week after her father suddenly died.
Conway, Anne et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Clarendon Press.
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Probably 1677 or 1678

AC wrote the philosophical notebook which was later translated and published.
Conway, Anne. The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy. Editor Loptson, Peter, Martinus Nijhoff.
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Conway, Anne, and Henry More. “Introduction; Editorial Materials”. The Conway Letters, edited by Sarah Hutton et al., Revised, Clarendon Press, p. vii - xix; various pages.
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23 February 1679

AC died at Ragley Hall after long illness. She knew she was dying, but refused to have her husband, who was in Ireland, summoned home. She suffered great agony in dying, but her mind was unaffected.
Conway, Anne et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Clarendon Press.
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Hutton, Sarah. Anne Conway: A Woman Philosopher. Cambridge University Press.
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1690

The Latin translation of AC 's philosophical notebooks was posthumously printed at Amsterdam as Principia philosophiae antiquissimae & recentissimae, in a volume entitled Opuscula philosophica.
Conway, Anne, and Henry More. “Introduction; Editorial Materials”. The Conway Letters, edited by Sarah Hutton et al., Revised, Clarendon Press, p. vii - xix; various pages.
xi n27
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Biography

Birth and Family

14 December 1631

The future philosopher AC was born as Anne Finch at Kensington House in London, the youngest in her family, just a week after her father suddenly died.
Conway, Anne et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Clarendon Press.
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