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Cultural formation | Anne Conway | AC
became a Quaker
. This at first compromised her friendship with More
, but he did modify his attitude to the Society of Friends as a result of her action. Conway, Anne et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Revised, Clarendon Press, 1992. 434 Conway, Anne, and Henry More. “Introduction; Editorial Materials”. The Conway Letters, edited by Sarah Hutton et al., Revised, Clarendon Press, 1992, p. vii - xix; various pages. xii |
Education | Lady Hester Pulter | Mark Robson
in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography observes that LHP
was an educated and highly literate woman. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Education | Damaris Masham | DM
was taught by men of great ability: first by her father, Ralph Cudworth
, and then from her early twenties by John Locke
. She mentions that she had spent most of my Life... |
Education | Mary Astell | MA
never attended school. Apart from sewing and the Bible, she was also taught theology and philosophy (of the school of the Cambridge Platonists, like Anne Conway
's friend Henry More
) by her uncle... |
Education | Anne Conway | Henry More
agreed to continue to correspond with AC
(especially about matters of religion) after her brother Sir John Finch
(More's pupil) had gone abroad in the diplomatic service. Hutton, Sarah. Anne Conway: A Woman Philosopher. Cambridge University Press, 2004. 61, 38 |
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 | Anne Conway | Henry More
dedicated his philosophical An Antidote against Atheism to AC
: he had sent her two copies by 6 January 1653. Conway, Anne et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Revised, Clarendon Press, 1992. 69 and n1 |
Instructor | Anne Conway | ACunfortunately left no comment on her early education. Conway, Anne et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Revised, Clarendon Press, 1992. 5 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Anne Conway | After she died, More
and Van Helmont
planned to lose no time in publishing the contents of this notebook, written abruptly and scatteredly . . . in a Paper-Book, with a Black-lead Pen, which she... |
Author summary | Anne Conway | AC
's reputation has been quietly growing into that of a serious late-seventeenth-century philosopher, rather than merely a patron of male philosophers. Her correspondence with Henry More
is full of philosophical as well as personal interest. |
Textual Features | Rose Macaulay | This is her sole historical novel and the only one to reflect her long-standing interest in the seventeenth century. Set between October 1640 and May 1641, the period of the Long Parliament, the novel portrays... |
Textual Production | Anne Conway | |
Textual Production | Anne Conway | It had taken More
and Van Helmont
a decade to organise this publication. By that time Van Helmont's thinking was under attack and he may have intended Conway as an ally. Hutton, Sarah. Anne Conway: A Woman Philosopher. Cambridge University Press, 2004. 228 |
Travel | Anne Conway | AC
travelled, with Henry More
and with her library keeper Conway, Anne et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Revised, Clarendon Press, 1992. 57 Conway, Anne, and Henry More. “Introduction; Editorial Materials”. The Conway Letters, edited by Sarah Hutton et al., Revised, Clarendon Press, 1992, p. vii - xix; various pages. xi Conway, Anne et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Revised, Clarendon Press, 1992. 57 and n7, 135 |
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