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The Conway letters : the correspondence of Anne, Viscountess Conway, Henry More, and their friends, 1642-1684 / edited by Marjorie Hope Nicolson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Conway, Anne, 1631-1679.
- Standardized Title:
- Correspondence. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cambridge Platonists--Correspondence.
- Cambridge Platonists.
- Philosophers--Great Britain--Correspondence.
- Philosophers.
- Theologians--Great Britain--Correspondence.
- Theologians.
- Great Britain--Intellectual life--17th century.
- Great Britain.
- Conway, Anne, 1631-1679--Correspondence.
- Conway, Anne.
- More, Henry, 1614-1687--Correspondence.
- More, Henry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 592 p.) : ill., ports.
- Edition:
- Rev. ed. with an introduction and new material / edited by Sarah Hutton.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004, c1992.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The correspondence of Cambridge Platonist Henry More and Lady Anne Conway, a remarkable woman who became a philosopher in her own right at a time when most women were denied even basic education. These letters depict their long-standing friendship and views on philosophy and other topics.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title page
- Contents
- Introduction to the Revised Edition
- The Conway and Finch Families
- Anne Conway and Henry More
- Interludes
- Ireland and Cambridge
- Valentine Greatrakes
- Francis Mercury van Helmont
- Quakerism
- Appendix A Letters of Henry More after the death of the Viscountess Conway
- Appendix B Letters omitted wholly or in part from the 1930 edition
- Appendix C Emendations and Further Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-173334-2
- OCLC:
- 935285515
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