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...
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.
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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...