John Norris

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Standard Name: Norris, John

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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
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 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 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...
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 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.
73-4
Her first letter in the series declares her refusal to conform to the expectations of...
Textual Features Sarah Fyge
The volume nicely mixes the personal and political. SF shows daring in expressions of love and of refusal to accept conventional restraints of all kinds. She reprints all four of her poems on Dryden 's...
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
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
The attribution to her in some quarters of Astell 's Serious Proposal (published in July 1694 as by a Lover of her Sex) may have made DM wish to distance herself from Astell. Here...
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
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.
172
boasted only two items by the newsworthy Jacobite churchman Francis Atterbury
Textual Features Elizabeth Thomas
These letters provide a vivid picture of ET's life: her cultured friends, her alertness to read and comment on new and old books (she and Gwinnett discuss Locke , Malebranche , Norris , Astell
Literary responses Elizabeth Thomas
John Norris of Bemerton (in the course of a letter discussing philosophy and poetry) congratulated the young ET on her pregnant Genius for Poetry.
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University.
146

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.