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

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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 willgive 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 lateseventeenth-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 Read more About the Author The late Marjorie Hope Nicolson was William Trent Peterfield Professor of English at Smith College, Columbia. Read more