John Locke

DM published, again anonymously, her Occasional Thoughts in Reference to a Vertuous or Christian Life: Abel Boyer erroneously ascribed it to Locke .

A new edition of DM 's anonymous Christian Life was published as Thoughts on a Christian Life, attributed to John Locke, Esq.

Johnson found at this stage a good deal to criticize but also much to praise. The work possessed, he said, such force of comprehension, and such nicety of observation as Locke or Pascal might be...

The title continues . . . Or a Series of English Poetry, from the Saxons, to the Reign of King Charles II, Containing the Lives and Characters of all the known Writers in that Interval...

This was published at Bath and London. EH did serious historical research for this book, reading all the Roman history she could find in English and even commissioning translations.

Boyer made the ascription in the 1705 volume of his annual series The History of the Reign of Queen Anne. Masham claimed in her preface to have written this work (during leisure Hours)...

CT made her first anonymous foray into philosophical debate, with A Defence of the Essay of Human Understanding, Written by Mr. Lock.

Catharine Cockburn (formerly CT ) published (as the author of A Defence of Mr. Lock 's Essay of Humane Understanding) A Letter to Dr. [Winch] Holdsworth: her first publication since her marriage in 1708.

The full title is The Christian Religion, As Professed by a Daughter of the Church of England . Containing Proper Directions for the due Behaviour of Women in every Station of Life with remarks on...

Damaris Cudworth (later DM ) wrote the first of her extant, sparkling letters to John Locke . She used the name Philoclea, and occasionally called him Philander.

Damaris Cudworth (later DM ) sent John Locke a pastoral narrative poem entitled On Damons Loveing of Clora: nearly two pages in octosyllabic couplets.

Damaris Cudworth (later DM ) addressed to Locke a long poem wittily discussing the relationship between the sexes; she sent it to him more than a year after writing it, with one of her several...

Her choice of Descartes is interesting in view of his particular interest for such proto-feminist writers as Mary Astell in the early eighteenth century. Her other two essays on philosophy were about John Locke and...

In these two theological polemcs CT defends the right of the individual to interpret scripture for himself (or by implication herself), and the Christian orthodoxy of Locke , whom Holdsworth had accused of being a...

At his death on 28 October 1704, Locke left sizeable legacies to DM and her son.