Gilbert Burnet

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Standard Name: Burnet, Gilbert
Used Form: Doctor Burnet

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Literary responses Elizabeth Burnet
Her husband Gilbert Burnet called EBone of the most extraordinary persons that has lived in this age.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Gilbert Burnet
Though C. Kirchberger in 1949 described her life and thought as a last flowering...
Literary responses Aphra Behn
Wharton's warm appreciation carried a hint of good advice to AB : bid your Muse maintain a Vestal Fire.
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press.
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Nevertheless it drew a resounding condemnation of Behn's work from Gilbert Burnet , who took...
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
Material Conditions of Writing Elizabeth Burnet
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.
Burnet, Elizabeth. “journals and papers”. Bodleian Library, MS Rawl. D. 1092, folios 111–203.
Occupation Mary Astell
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...
Publishing Elizabeth Burnet
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...
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...
Textual Production Mary Caesar
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 ).
Rumbold, Valerie. “The Jacobite vision of Mary Caesar”. Women, Writing, History, 1640-1740, edited by Isobel Grundy and Susan Wiseman, Batsford, pp. 178-98.
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Textual Production Aphra Behn
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.
O’Donnell, Mary Ann. Aphra Behn: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. Garland.
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Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press.
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Textual Production Aphra Behn
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...
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.
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Griffiths, Ralph, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
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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.
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