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 | 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
... |
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 |
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 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 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Gaskell | The idea of self-improvement through writing and reading correlates to the strong emphasis in EG
's fiction on education and the impact of environment. This was undoubtedly influenced by a Unitarian intellectual background indebted to... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Damaris Masham | 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, Masham, Damaris. Occasional Thoughts in Reference to a Vertuous or Christian Life. A. and J. Churchill. 3 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Masters | 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... |
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 | 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... |