Hume, Sophia. An Exhortation to the Inhabitants of the Province of South-Carolina. William Bradford.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Sophia Hume | Satires on women, she says, are enough, one would imagine, to make the hardest Forehead blush. Hume, Sophia. An Exhortation to the Inhabitants of the Province of South-Carolina. William Bradford. 44 |
death | John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester | John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
, poet and libertine, died worn out at not much past thirty, after a death-bed conversion orchestrated and subsequently publicised by Gilbert Burnet
(later Bishop of Salisbury). Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press. 448 |
Reception | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Lady Mary sent her translation straight off to Bishop Gilbert Burnet
with a request (phrased with proper humility) that he should read and criticise it. His answer does not survive, but he carefully read and... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Rachel Russell | Friends of her later years included Dr Fitzwilliam
and Gilbert Burnet
. |
Friends, Associates | Sarah, Lady Cowper | SLC
brought to the social rituals of visiting some of the same suspicious stance with which she viewed her relations. I visit Some people for the Same Causes as the Indians Worship the Devil, least... |
Textual Production | Catharine Trotter | CT
published A Discourse concerning "A Guide in Controversies", a religious or theological work with a preface by Gilbert Burnet
, which belatedly answers The Guide in Controversies, probably 1677, by Abraham Woodhead
. Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate. 151n37 Griffiths, Ralph, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths. 5 (1751): 115 Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. |
Wealth and Poverty | Catharine Trotter | Both Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough
, and Gilbert Burnet
were concerned in the payment of CT
's mother's pension, restored under Queen Anne
. Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate. 4 |
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... |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Anne Wharton | Gilbert Burnet
wrote to AW
for the first time; she had consulted him over her religious doubts. Wharton, Anne. “Introduction”. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, edited by Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, pp. 1-124. 77-8 |
Friends, Associates | Anne Wharton | AW
wrote angrily to Burnet
, who had sent her counsel and reproof on hearing (falsely) that she was parting from her husband. Wharton, Anne. “Introduction”. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, edited by Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, pp. 1-124. 79-80 |
Friends, Associates | Anne Wharton | AW
corresponded with Gilbert Burnet
, who had converted Rochester on his deathbed. They exchanged poems and discussed religion; Burnet perhaps saw her as another soul to be saved. |
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