John Locke

EB was born into an English gentry family. John Fell , Bishop of Oxford (remembered as a scholar and an energetic reformer and upholder of standards at Oxford University and the University Press ), was...

CT finished her treatise by the beginning of this year. It appeared under two very slightly different titles bearing the same date, both printed for William Turner and John Nutt . As her full...

William Grey , the girls' cousin and Maria's future husband, encouraged them to study philosophy, particularly the writings of Francis Bacon and John Locke . A cousin of their father, Sir William Hall Gage ...

Apparently, HM 's family sent her to Bristol without informing her that she would be gone for such a long period. In Mrs Rankin, whom she refers to in her Autobiography as her Aunt Kentish

The philosopher John Locke was descended from RH 's father.

In ordinary company EB made no display of her knowledge, but she could talk to eminent churchmen as if she had equally studied the same Subject with them. This seemed to arouse interest and...

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...

Damaris Cudworth (later DM ) probably met John Locke about 1681. They began a correspondence the following year, and their friendship lasted until Locke's death. He soon began calling her his Governess—perhaps jokingly, since...

DM was taught by men of great ability: first by her father, Ralph Cudworth , and then from her early twenties by John Locke . She mentions that she had spent most of my Life...

It is therefore in defiance of reason, in a world in which the Gross of Mankind do not live in accordance with the Rule of Nature, educated women pay for their knowledge with...

A few of the letters discuss female friendship and feminist opinion, as if seeking to raise the consciousness of the recipient. Some in this category occur at random among other letters. Most treat topics of...

Here the gothic element is much strengthened. The story takes place before the time of Martin Luther . Young girls are immured in a convent because of an older woman's envy of their beauty, and...

The letter after the first of Alphonso's, addressed by Mrs P— to a male correspondent, is a kind of philosophical essay, which takes issue with Locke over the belief that intellectual ideas are derived from...

Astell expanded her Advertisement to mention with appreciation the reign of a female monarch, Anne . Her preface challenges the opinions of John Locke . It contains her famous question as to how women can...

In this poem she calls on the monarch to make himself truly happy by opposing war and slavery, and by supporting missions. She opens vividly with a fantasy of how she herself would behave if...