John Locke

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...

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...

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...

She dedicated it to the court lady Anna Maria Poyntz . It may perhaps be the Book Upon Education which SF was planning in October 1748, or that may have been something different that...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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 ...

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...