Gilbert Burnet

Gilbert Burnet wrote to AW for the first time; she had consulted him over her religious doubts.

AW wrote angrily to Burnet , who had sent her counsel and reproof on hearing (falsely) that she was parting from her husband.

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.

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 .

Both Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough , and Gilbert Burnet were concerned in the payment of CT 's mother's pension, restored under Queen Anne .

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...

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

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...

Friends of her later years included Dr Fitzwilliam and Gilbert Burnet .

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...

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).

Satires on women, she says, are enough, one would imagine, to make the hardest Forehead blush. But American women apparently do not blush, though they are colonial copy-cats in other ways: you mimick Great...

Nevertheless she writes that at about eight she was quite uneducated, except reading and plain-work. She then received a polite education from the Dutchwoman Catalina Schuyler of Albany, New York, whom she called...

Her range of curiosity of wide. Of orthodox Jews she writes, Is not priestcraft the same in all climes, in all ages, in all forms of worship? She believes that politically disturbing plays ought...

Her mother was of Welsh and her father of English descent. There was no basis for the family belief that the distinguished seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Scottish churchman Gilbert Burnet was an ancestor.