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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 | 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... |
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... |
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
. Cohn, Ruby. Back to Beckett. Princeton University Press. viii |
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... |
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... |
Textual Production | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | Sixteen-year-old MEC
penned Cartesian Credo, an essay on René Descartes
which is one of three short philosophical works she composed that year. Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth. “Memoir and Editorial Materials”. Gathered Leaves from the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge, edited by Edith Sichel, Constable, pp. 1 - 44; various pages. 7-8 |
Textual Production | Anne Conway | Anne Finch (later AC
) had begun her correspondence with Henry More
: before this date he had sent her works by Descartes
and by himself for her to read. Conway, Anne et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Clarendon Press. 51 |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Conway | |
Textual Production | Anna Hume | The author's name appears respectfully as Mris [i.e. Mistress] Anna Hume. The main title-page prints Love, Chastitie, and Death one below the other and brackets them. The Triumph of Chastitie and The... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Jennings | She includes poems for poets, artists, and thinkers: George Herbert
, Charles Causley
, Philip Larkin
, J. M. W. Turner
, Caravaggio
, Chardin
, Goya
, Hume
, and Descartes
. A sequence... |
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... |
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... |
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