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Anthologization | Elizabeth Thomas | This ragbag collection (of which Curll's biographers remark that he could do more with an et cetera than anybody else in recorded history) Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press, 2007. 172 |
Education | Elizabeth Thomas | Almost untaught, Curll, Edmund et al. “The Life of Corinna. Written by Herself”. Pylades and Corinna, 1731, p. iv - lxxx. viii |
Education | Mary Astell | She continued throughout her life to expand her educational horizons, especially in the same areas of philosophy and theology. She made a special study of René Descartes
, and when John Norris
introduced her to... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Thomas | She was a friend of John Norris of Bemerton
from about 1695, or sixteen years before his death. Curll, Edmund et al. “The Life of Corinna. Written by Herself”. Pylades and Corinna, 1731, p. iv - lxxx. xii-xiii |
Friends, Associates | Damaris Masham | John Norris
wrote a dedication to DM
of The Theory and Regulation of Love, which he published the same year. Locke, John. The Correspondence of John Locke. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Clarendon, 1976–1989, 8 vols. 2: 471 |
Friends, Associates | Damaris Masham | John Norris
for the second time addressed a book of his composition to DM
: Reflections upon the Condition of Human Life, which was published in 1690. Locke, John. The Correspondence of John Locke. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Clarendon, 1976–1989, 8 vols. 2: 471 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Astell | MA
wrote the first of her letters to John Norris
, to challenge (with extreme tact and politeness) a point made in his Discourses Upon the Beatitudes, 1690. Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press, 1986. 73-4 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Astell | Elizabeth Hutcheson
(an associate of nonjuring devotional writer William Law
, as was Hastings) later became MA
's executor. Her friendship with Lady Chudleigh
was conducted largely by letter, since Chudleigh lived in Devon. Astell... |
Literary responses | Damaris Masham | Norris
, who thought this book was by Locke
, wrote complaining of its Spleen and Prejudice and of the Disdain and Contempt with which he was treated in it. Locke, John. The Correspondence of John Locke. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Clarendon, 1976–1989, 8 vols. 2: 471 |
Literary responses | Mary Astell | Theosophical Transactions, the journal of Jane Lead
's Philadelphian Society
, warmly praised MA
's work and published extracts from it. Damaris Masham
, however (who was herself guessed by some to be the... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Thomas | John Norris of Bemerton
(in the course of a letter discussing philosophy and poetry) congratulated the young qtd. in Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000. 146 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Thomas | This collection contains the harvest of Thomas's poetic career. Her Muse, she says, is unfashionably incapable of dealing with love or obscenity: this shows clearly that her original poetic context was a Restoration one. Thomas, Elizabeth, 1675 - 1731. Miscellany Poems on Several Subjects. Thomas Combes, 1722. 50-1 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Thomas | These letters provide a vivid picture of |
Textual Features | Mary Astell | Astell had approached Norris
to point out a gap or inconsistency in his Discourses Upon the Beatitudes, 1690. Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press, 1986. 73-4 |
Textual Features | Sarah Fyge |