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, Henry More, and Marjorie Hope Nicolson. The Conway Letters. Hutton, SarahEditor , Clarendon Press, 1992.
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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. Loptson, PeterEditor , Martinus Nijhoff, 1982.
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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.
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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, Henry More, and Marjorie Hope Nicolson. The Conway Letters. Hutton, SarahEditor , Clarendon Press, 1992.
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Hutton, Sarah. Anne Conway: A Woman Philosopher. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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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, Marjorie Hope Nicolson, and Marjorie Hope Nicolson, Revised, Clarendon Press, 1992, 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, Henry More, and Marjorie Hope Nicolson. The Conway Letters. Hutton, SarahEditor , Clarendon Press, 1992.
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