Gilbert Burnet

Wharton's warm appreciation carried a hint of good advice to AB : bid your Muse maintain a Vestal Fire. Nevertheless it drew a resounding condemnation of Behn's work from Gilbert Burnet , who took...

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

Her husband Gilbert Burnet called EBone of the most extraordinary persons that has lived in this age.Though C. Kirchberger in 1949 described her life and thought as a last flowering...

EB began writing a volume of Meditations not long after she had married Gilbert Burnet as her second husband.This survives among her papers in the Bodleian Library, bound in MS Rawlinson D 1092.

During the 1690s, long before her involvement with a charity school for poor girls, MA apparently hoped to found a community of serious-minded, self-educating, middle-class, single women, of the kind she recommends in A Serious...

On her death the same leading publishing house at once re-issued the book in a second edition, with her name, a frontispiece featuring her portrait (engraved by M. Vandergucht after Kneller ), and a memoir...

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...

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 .

In the month of AB 's death there appeared her Pindaric Poem to the Reverend Doctor Burnet , on the Honour he did me of Enquiring after me and my Muse.

After James II had fled the country in 1688, AB received a flattering invitation from Gilbert Burnet (who in 1682 had tried to divide her from Anne Wharton on moral grounds) to welcome the new...

MC told Mary Barber that she would have liked to write the history of her own times (no doubt, says Rumbold, in opposition to the publication of that title by the Whig Gilbert Burnet ).

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