The Conway Letters: The Correspondence of Anne, Viscountess Conway, Henry More and their Friends, 1642-1684 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198248768 ISBN 13: 9780198248767

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1992

Synopsis

This book is the record of a remarkable friendship between the Cambridge Platonist Henry More and one of the foremost women intellectuals of the seventeenth century, Lady Anne Conway. The letters cover a wide range of topics--personal, philosophical, religious, and social, and they give a detailed picture of the More-Conway circle which included such figures as Jeremy Taylor, Ralph Cudworth, Robert Boyle, and William Penn. This revised edition reprints all the letters from the original 1930 edition, together with Marjorie Nicolson's biographical account of Anne Conway and Henry More, with its emphasis on the personal side of their relationship. A new appendix contains important letters not included in the first edition, among them the early discussion of Cartesianism. The introduction by Sarah Hutton sets the book in the context of recent scholarship.

About this title

About the Author

The late Marjorie Hope Nicolson was William Trent Peterfield Professor of English at Smith College, Columbia.

Review

`a treasure-trove from the 17th century, a collection of correspondence mostly to and from the remarkable Lady Anne Conway ... A whole world comes to life in these pages.'
Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph

'excellent revised edition ... Sarah Hutton has managed to improve greatly ... a work of scholarship which has enjoyed a reputation as one of the most useful sources of insight into the intellectual and social life of late seventeenth-century England ... this superbly produced new edition will
give libraries and the odd wealthy academic the opportunity to include it in their collections ... The Clarendon Press, and Sarah Hutton are to be congratulated ... for making available once again what always was one of the most important and stimulating works of scholarship on late
seventeenth-century intellectual life, and for succeeding in making it even more useful than it was before.'
John Henry, University of Edinburgh, British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 26, 1993

Edition details

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0198248768
• ISBN 13: 9780198248767
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 622
• Editor: Nicolson Marjorie Hope