Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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 |
Education | Elizabeth Thomas | Almost untaught, Curll, Edmund et al. “The Life of Corinna. Written by Herself”. Pylades and Corinna, p. iv - lxxx. viii |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Thomas | These letters provide a vivid picture of |
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 | |
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 |
Textual Features | Sarah Fyge | |
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... |