The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press, 1954.
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death | John Locke | JL
, philosopher, scientist, and political and religious thinker, died at the home of Sir Francis
and Damaris Masham
: Oates, High Laver, Essex. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press, 1954. 307 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908. 12: 34 Eagle, Dorothy, Hilary Carnell, and Meic Stephens. The Oxford Literary Guide to Great Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press, 1993. 437 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Walker | He then, however, on 21 September 1691, married again. His second wife, Margaret Masham
, was perhaps a sister-in-law of the writer Damaris Masham
. Anthony Walker died some time shortly before 18 April 1692. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. under Anthony Walker |
Friends, Associates | John Locke | JL
corresponded on philosophical topics with several women interested in the subject: with Elizabeth Burnet
, the young Catharine Trotter
, and most importantly with Damaris Cudworth, later Lady Masham
. His friendship with Masham... |
Friends, Associates | John Norris | JN
conducted correspondences with a number of learned women: Mary, Lady Chudleigh
(who visited him at his home), Damaris, Lady Masham
(with whom his relationship ended in difference of opinion), and Elizabeth Thomas
, all... |
Friends, Associates | Catharine Trotter | During her London years she was an ally of Damaris Masham
, but quarrelled with Delarivier Manley
. She found both a patron and a friend in Sarah, Lady Piers
(who wrote poetry herself). She... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Astell | Her closest friends were the unmarried Lady Betty Hastings
and Lady Catherine Jones
, and the widow Lady Coventry
. Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press, 1986. 243 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Astell | MA
influenced a whole generation of writing women: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
, Mary Chudleigh
, Elizabeth Thomas
, Judith Drake
, Damaris Masham
(although Masham's opinions were markedly different), Elizabeth Elstob
, and Jane Barker |
Literary responses | Catharine Trotter | Her defence brought praise from Locke
himself (of the strength and clarity of her reasoning), a gift of books, and the opening of an actual correspondence. It brought her, too, warm praise from John Toland |
Literary responses | Mary Astell | Theosophical Transactions, the journal of Jane Lead
's Philadelphian Society
, warmly praised MA
's work and published extracts from it. Damaris Masham
, however (who was herself guessed by some to be the... |
Author summary | Ephelia | The Restoration user of the name Ephelia
was a remarkably assured, forceful, and accomplished poet (as well as a playwright), although she left, outside her single printed collection (1679), only four poems extant: political broadsheets... |
Residence | John Locke | Locke spent the latter part of the 1670s in France, and then, for the last couple of years of Charles II
's reign and for the whole of that of James II
, lived... |
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 Dacier | Readers of Marcus Aurelius in England of around AD
's age included the Dissenting prophet and pamphleteer Joan Whitrow
and the gentlewoman of letters Damaris Masham
. Other editions of this work appeared in this... |
Textual Production | Ephelia | Her title is A Funerall Elegie on Sr Thomas Isham Barronet The manuscript of the 49-line elegy is at Nottingham University
, in a collection of papers of the Dukes of Portland. Its high-quality, watermarked... |
Textual Production | Mary Astell | MA
dated her preface 17 July 1694, and published as the Author of the Serious Proposal to the Ladies—a mark of confidence in a book only just appearing. These letters had been, as the... |
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