qtd. in
Cohn, Ruby. Back to Beckett. Princeton University Press, 1973.
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Anthologization | Anna Maria van Schurman | AMS
amassed quite a bibliography of printed work before she was fifty, mostly in Latin. In 1636 she wrote, by invitation, a celebratory ode for the opening of the new University of Utrecht
. Her... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Thomas | She was a Cartesian in philosophy, and an Anglican
in religion (though the influence of her Dissenting grandmother caused her an attack of doctrinal panic over predestination at the age of fifteen). She says she... |
Cultural formation | Mary Astell | MA
was a middle-class Englishwoman with strong High Anglican
and Tory opinions. At the same time, her sustained and intense application to the issue of women's status puts her squarely in the category of early... |
Education | C. E. Plumptre | Though nothing is know of CEP
's early education, in later life she kept an extensive library. On visiting her, Frederick James Gould
noted that it was selected and arranged in an impressive order which... |
Education | Mary Astell | She continued throughout her life to expand her educational horizons, especially in the same areas of philosophy and theology. She made a special study of René Descartes
, and when John Norris
introduced her to... |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Cavendish | During their exile, the marquess entertained influential materialist thinkers Thomas Hobbes
, Pierre Gassendi
, and René Descartes
; Margaret Cavendish says she made no contribution to their learned discussions, but it seems likely that... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Maria van Schurman | Visiting AMS
became a custom among cultivated people travelling in or to Utrecht. She met Elizabeth, Princess Palatine
(daughter of the Queen of Bohemia
), and became a friend and correspondent of a network of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Conway | |
Literary responses | Samuel Beckett | The competition, for the best poem on Time, was judged by Nancy Cunard
and Richard Aldington
. Cunard
called the winner a long poem, mysterious, obscure in parts, centered around Descartes
. qtd. in Cohn, Ruby. Back to Beckett. Princeton University Press, 1973. viii |
Publishing | May Sinclair | The late-teenage MS
(still known as Mary) published her first essay in the fifth number of the Cheltenham Ladies College Magazine: it was on Descartes
. Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000. 26n38 |
Textual Features | Mona Caird | The protagonist of this novel, Victoria Sedley, has early thoughts about her status as a separate self, which critic Patricia Murphy calls Cartes
ian, but she later grows up into the confines of a woman's... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Carter | One of her best-known poems today is A Dialogue between the Body and the Mind. These entities (often body and soul) had long been popular in dialogue, especially post-Cartesian
times: used both for straight... |
Textual Features | Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette | The novel deals both with personal and with public (political) events. Its plot features an adulterous love heroically renounced at great personal cost. The protagonist confesses to her husband that she loves the duc de... |
Textual Features | Mary Astell | A Serious Proposal, part one, is the work where Astell proposes the setting up of female communities where single women could lead studious and religious lives unless or until they might wish to marry... |
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