Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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... |
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. 26n38 |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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 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... |
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 | 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 |
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 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 | 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... |
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