Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press.
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Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Mary Astell | MA
dated her preface 17 July 1694, and published as the Author of the Serious Proposal to the Ladies—a mark of confidence in a book only just appearing. These letters had been, as the... |
| Textual Production | Damaris Masham | Editor Germaine Greer
and her collaborators suspect on grounds of style that DM
is the author of a poem included in John Norris
's Collection of Miscellanies: Consisting of Poems, Essays, Discourses and Letters, Occasionally... |
| Textual Production | Damaris Masham | |
| 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. |
| Textual Features | Sarah Fyge | |
| 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. Miscellany Poems on Several Subjects. Thomas Combes. 50-1 |
| 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 | 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. 2: 471 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Thomas | John Norris of Bemerton
(in the course of a letter discussing philosophy and poetry) congratulated the young Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University. 146 |
| 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. 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... |
| 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. 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. 2: 471 |
| 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, p. iv - lxxx. xii-xiii |
Timeline
17 March 1691: John Dunton (in his tenth year as a London...
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17 March 1691
John Dunton
(in his tenth year as a London publisher) issued the first number of the periodical which then became the Athenian Mercury.
14 June 1697: John Dunton's Athenian Mercury ceased pu...
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14 June 1697
John Dunton
's Athenian Mercury ceased publication.
1 December 1699: John Pomfret published The Choice, a poem...
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1 December 1699
John Pomfret
published The Choice, a poem in praise of the good life; among many other poems sharing this title, or that of The Wish, Pomfret's became a long-lived favourite.
1701-4: John Norris published the two volumes of...
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1701-4
John Norris
published the two volumes of his Essay towards the Theory of the Ideal or Intelligible World.
Texts
Norris, John, and Mary Astell. Letters Concerning the Love of God. S. Manship and Richard Wilkin, 1695.