Almost untaught, ET says she read the Bible all through three times before her fifth birthday. She was Covetous . . . of Learning to the last Degree,
Curll, Edmund et al. “The Life of Corinna. Written by Herself”. Pylades and Corinna, p. iv - lxxx.
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though she felt her imagination hindered...
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...
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.
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boasted only two items by the newsworthy Jacobite churchman Francis Atterbury
