Backscheider, Paula R. “Stretching the Form: Catharine Trotter Cockburn and Other Failures”. Theatre Journal, Vol.
47
, pp. 443-58. 447
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Cultural formation | Elizabeth Burnet | 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... |
Dedications | Catharine Trotter | CT
finished her treatise by the beginning of this year. Backscheider, Paula R. “Stretching the Form: Catharine Trotter Cockburn and Other Failures”. Theatre Journal, Vol. 47 , pp. 443-58. 447 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Education | Harriet Martineau | 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 |
Education | Emily Shirreff | 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
... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rose Hickman | The philosopher John Locke
was descended from RH
's father. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Burnet | 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. O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press. 52 |
Friends, Associates | Catharine Trotter | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Damaris Masham | 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... |
Instructor | Damaris Masham | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah, Lady Pennington | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Astell | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Alethea Lewis | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Phillips | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Astell | From Astell's own viewpoint this would have been her most important work; it represents the distillation of her religious and philosophical opinions. It follows in the tradition of Bathsua Makin
's Essay to Revive the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Fielding | She dedicated it to the court lady Anna Maria Poyntz
. It may perhaps be the Book Upon Education Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xli. xxxix |