Sarah Hutton

Standard Name: Hutton, Sarah

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Education Anne Conway
ACunfortunately left no comment on her early education.
Conway, Anne et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Revised, Clarendon Press, 1992.
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It used to be believed that she had tutors, but it is quite possible that she largely taught herself, from books, French, Latin, Greek, and...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Conway
AC 's only child, a son born on 6 February 1659, died of smallpox.
AC gives his birthdate as 6 February 1658/9, presumably 1659 new style. Biographer Sarah Hutton says 1658 on pages 23 and...
Friends, Associates Anne Conway
Anne Finch (later AC ) became a friend and correspondent of the philosopher Henry More , whom she probably met through her elder half-brother, John, who had been his student at Cambridge. More was a...
Publishing Anne Conway
This correspondence is just part of a large haul discovered by Horace Walpole in August 1758, lying around disregarded at Ragley Hall, partly rotten and partly gnawed by rats. Walpole rescued the collection and...
Reception Anne Conway
Two of AC 's most recent editors, Coudert and Corse , more forcefully assert that hers is the most interesting and original philosophical treatise written by a woman in the seventeenth century
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.
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and that...

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Texts

Hutton, Sarah. Anne Conway: A Woman Philosopher. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Conway, Anne, and Henry More. “Introduction; Editorial Materials”. The Conway Letters, edited by Sarah Hutton et al., Revised, Clarendon Press, 1992, p. vii - xix; various pages.
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 et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Revised, Clarendon Press, 1992.