Anne Finch (later AC
) became a friend and correspondent of the philosopher Henry More
, whom she probably met through her elder half-brother, John, who had been his student at Cambridge. More was a...
Intertextuality and Influence
Susan Smythies
The novel offers in passing an amusing catalogue of an old-fashioned library, whose first items are heroic romances like Ibraham; Cassandra; Cleopatra [by Madeleine de Scudéry
and Gauthier de La Calprenède
]. Several...
Textual Production
Anne Conway
AC
wrote the second of two letters from Lisburn in Ireland to Joseph Glanvill
.
Glanvill, Joseph et al. Saducismus triumphatus. F. Collins and S. Lownds, 1681.
2: 288-9
Conway, Anne et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Revised, Clarendon Press, 1992.
214
Timeline
1667: Joseph Glanvill published Some Philosophical...
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1667
Joseph Glanvill
published Some Philosophical Considerations touching the being of Witches and Witchcraft.
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1681: Joseph Glanvill's Sadducismus Triumphatus:...
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1681
Joseph Glanvill
's Sadducismus Triumphatus: or, Full and Plain Evidence concerning Witches and Apparitions was posthumously published: it contains many stories of women and men persecuted as witches, many sentenced to death.
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Texts
Glanvill, Joseph et al. Saducismus triumphatus. F. Collins and S. Lownds, 1681.