SLC
was a fervent Anglican
: her husband felt her piety would wear out a parson, let alone a man of some religious scepticism like himself.
Kugler, Anne. Errant Plagiary: The Life and Writing of Lady Sarah Cowper, 1644-1720. Stanford University Press, 2002.
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When in 1701 she met the free-thinking philosopher...
Intertextuality and Influence
Penelope Aubin
PA
's preface attacks the abominable Writings of the freethinker John Toland
qtd. in
Welham, Debbie. “The Political Afterlife of Resentment in Penelope Aubins The Life and Amorous Adventures of Lucinda (1721)”. Womens Writing, Vol.
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, No. 1, 2013, pp. 49-63.
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and promises: If this Trifle sells you may be sure to hear of me again.
qtd. in
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
It asserts her claim that she writes...
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Tollet
Her long feminist polemic Hypatia was written in response to an ongoing controversy between radical John Toland
and reactionary Thomas Lewis
(both equally at odds with Tollet's thinking). Toland praised Hypatia and excoriated the persecuting...
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
Timeline
1678: An anonymous, blasphemous pamphlet, the Traité...
Writing climate item
1678
An anonymous, blasphemous pamphlet, the Traité des trois imposteurs, got into print after first circulating in manuscript.
Jullian, Philippe. The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons, and Republicans. George Allen and Unwin, 1981.