Damaris Masham

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DM , philosophical controversialist of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, was also a memorable writer of familiar letters and witty poetry (both pastoral and satire).

Milestones

18 January 1658
Damaris Cudworth (later DM ) was born in Cambridge, into a large family.
Locke, John. The Correspondence of John Locke. De Beer, Esmond SamuelEditor , Clarendon, 1989.
2: 470
Probably early 1685
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 allusions to Katherine Philips .
Locke, John. The Correspondence of John Locke. De Beer, Esmond SamuelEditor , Clarendon, 1989.
2: 759, 793, 795-800
1705
DM published, again anonymously, her Occasional Thoughts in Reference to a Vertuous or Christian Life: Abel Boyer erroneously ascribed it to Locke .
English Short Title Catalogue.
20 April 1708
DM died at Bath, aged not yet fifty.
Locke, John. The Correspondence of John Locke. De Beer, Esmond SamuelEditor , Clarendon, 1989.
2: 470
1747
A new edition of DM 's anonymous Christian Life was published as Thoughts on a Christian Life, attributed to John Locke, Esq.
Locke, John. The Correspondence of John Locke. De Beer, Esmond SamuelEditor , Clarendon, 1989.
2: 471
London Magazine. C. Ackers.
(May 1747): 248
British Library Catalogue.

Biography

Birth and Background

18 January 1658
Damaris Cudworth (later DM ) was born in Cambridge, into a large family.
Locke, John. The Correspondence of John Locke. De Beer, Esmond SamuelEditor , Clarendon, 1989.
2: 470

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