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...
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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, 1910, pp. 1 - 44; various pages.
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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, Revised, Clarendon Press, 1992.