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Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (née Lucas; 1623 – 16 December 1673) was an English philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction writer, and playwright.She was a prolific writer, publishing over 12 original texts under her name at a time when women were largely removed from publishing.
"Lady Anne Conway". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Works by Anne Conway at Open Library; Contains "The principles of the most ancient and modern philosophy", slightly modified for easier reading; The principles of the most ancient and modern philosophy by Anne Conway (London: n. publ., 1692) at A Celebration of ...
The Prisoner's Philosophy: Life and Death in Boethius's Consolation, 2007, ISBN 978-0872205833. Sanderson Beck, The Consolation of Boethius an analysis and commentary. 1996. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Volume I Ch.6.5: De Consolatione Philosophiae, 1907–1921.
Carruthers notes that it is the independence that the Wife's wealth provides for her that allows her to love freely. [21] This implies that autonomy is an important component in genuine love, and since autonomy can only be achieved through wealth, wealth, then, becomes the greatest component for true love.
The Convent of Pleasure is a comedic play first published by Margaret Cavendish in 1668. It tells the story of Lady Happy, a noblewoman who chooses to reject marriage in favor of creating a community - the titular “convent” - in which she and other women of noble birth can live free from the constraints of patriarchy.
SparkNotes, originally part of a website called The Spark, is a company started by Harvard students Sam Yagan, Max Krohn, Chris Coyne, and Eli Bolotin in 1999 that originally provided study guides for literature, poetry, history, film, and philosophy. Later on, SparkNotes expanded to provide study guides for a number of other subjects ...
Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (/ ˈ m ɜːr d ɒ k / MUR-dok; 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher.Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious.
The loathly lady (Welsh: dynes gas, Motif D732 in Stith Thompson's motif index), is a tale type commonly used in medieval literature, most famously in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Tale. [1] The motif is that of a woman who appears unattractive (ugly, loathly ) but undergoes a transformation upon being approached by a man in spite of ...