Index

A

active reading, 7–8, 30, 60–62, 77, 135, 150, 160, 176, 190
Allestree, Richard, 6, 62–4, 71, 73, 93
almanacs, 173–4, 183n67
archives, 8–10, 15n40
Astell, Mary, 94, 130–32, 134–41, 150, 162–6, 169, 187
Aston, Herbert, 43–4
Avery, Ann, 134

B

Bacon, Francis, 32, 133, 138–9
Bacon, Jane Cornwallis, 96–100
Baker, Margaret, 144
ballads, 64
Bantoft, Elizabeth, 134
Barclay, John, 65–7
Barrington, Joan, 42, 96–9, 101–2, 109, 117, 187
Baxter, Margaret, 6–7
Baxter, Richard, 6–7, 71, 73
Beckwith, Susanna, 26–33, 160, 171
Behn, Aphra, 94
Bible, The, 20, 23–5, 34–5, 37–40, 42, 52n41–7, 73, 170–71, 182n55
ownership, 26–33
Geneva, 27–33, 53n50
Bisaker, Hannah, 142
book lists, 11–12, 19, 26, 51n32, 65, 132–3
Book of Common Prayer, 26, 43
Bosc, Jacques du, 5, 152n12
Boscawen, Jael, 104
Boyle, Robert, 5–6, 139, 146–50
Boyle, Roger, 82
Brathwaite, Richard, 63
Breton, Nicholas, 63
British Civil Wars, 43–4, 67, 94, 97, 101, 108, 164, 168–9
Browne, Mary, 166–7
Browne, Thomas, 166–7

C

Carpenter, Elizabeth, 68
Carpenter, Margaret, 68
Catchmay, Frances, 143
Catholicism, 35–7, 43, 103, 189
Catholic texts, 26, 41
Cavendish, Margaret, 79, 129–30, 132, 151n3
Charles I, 32, 45, 100, 115
Charles II, 103
Cholmondeley, Elizabeth, 175–6
Clifford, Anne, 3–4, 25, 40–42, 60, 65–9, 84, 87–8n45, 132, 160, 165–6, 169–70, 188–9
Clopton, Barbara, 96–7, 106, 117
coffee houses, 95, 111–12, 120n16, 126n103
commonplace books, 9, 36, 59, 62, 85n2, 145–50, 157n84, 159–61, 166–71, 175–9
definitions of, 151n6, 179n3, 179n4
communal reading, 23, 40, 50n17, 66, 87–8n45, 165–7
Compton, Penelope, 172
conduct literature, 4–7, 20–22, 25, 37, 60–65, 131–2
conversion, 6–7, 14–15n28, 37, 71–3
Conway, Anne, 129, 132
Corbyn, Margaret, 68
Costes, Gautier de (works by), 64, 71, 78
Cowper, Sarah, 39, 170–71
Culpeper, Nicholas, 63, 133

D

Dacier, André, 135–6
debate
religious/political, 20, 22, 34–7, 41–8
skills of, 49n10
Delaval, Elizabeth, 42–3, 60, 70–75, 82–4, 187–8, 190
Descartes, René, 130–31, 134–41, 150, 162–4
digital resources, 9–11, 16n45–7
Donne, John, 35
Drake, Judith, 65, 83
Dunton, Elizabeth, 23

E

education, 25, 59, 151n6, 167
Egerton, Frances, 3, 65, 87n38, 174–6
Eikon Basilike, 45–6
Elizabeth I, 28, 170
Evelyn, John, 25, 59–61, 104, 130–31, 173, 183n67
Evelyn, Mary, 25, 59–61, 101, 130–31
extensive reading, 28, 30, 52n48, 61–2, 96, 113, 121n21, 135, 137

F

family relationships, 28, 31–3, 43–4, 98–105, 107–9, 143, 155n65, 166–7, 172–4
Fanshawe, Ann, 94
female friendships, 78, 172
Finch, Anne, 102–3, 105
Freke, Elizabeth, 133, 156n78, 161
funeral sermons, 22–5, 37, 41, 168

G

Gerard, John, 132–3
gift inscriptions, 27, 31, 34, 54n72, 134, 143, 172
Glorious Revolution, 97, 106
Gouge, William, 20–22, 26, 73
Grey, Margaret, 99

H

habit, 19, 22–5, 31, 37
Halkett, Anne, 94
Halley, Edmund, 137–8
Hanbury, Dorothy, 23
Harley, Brilliana, 42, 95, 97, 101–2
Hatcher, Ellenor, 175
Hatton Helsby, Mary, 60, 70, 76–8, 83–4, 97, 103–5
Heath, Margaret, 26, 133
Herbert, Elizabeth, 173
histories, 59, 167, 174–5
Hobart, Frances, 22–4, 39
Hoby, Margaret, 3, 34–43, 54n76, 55n99, 187, 190
Horsington, Sarah, 145–50, 157n83
Houghton, Margaret, 24
Howard, Anne, 65
Hoyle, Elizabeth, 23
Hudson, Sarah, 142
Hutchinson, Lucy, 56n117, 94–5

I

Isham, Elizabeth, 60, 70, 74–5, 84

J

Jacobitism, 70, 106, 115–16
James I and VI, 32, 35, 67, 115, 165–6, 169, 174
James II and VII, 104, 106, 115
Jesuit, 26

K

Kemp, Mary, 173

L

languages (reading of)
French, 80, 131, 135–6, 162–4
Greek, 148
Latin, 68, 115, 145, 147–9
Ley, Anne, 167–70
Ley, Roger, 167–9
literacy, 8, 16n43, 22
Lloyd, Mary, 175–6
Locke, John, 164
London Gazette, 104, 110, 112–13
Lowther, Elizabeth, 176–8
Lyttelton, Elizabeth, 166–7, 169

M

Makin, Bathsua, 131
Malebranche, Nicolas, 134–41, 150
Manley, Delarivier, 94
Manners, Katherine, 61–2
marginalia, 9–11, 26–37, 52n39, 66–8, 95, 130, 134–41, 159–60, 162–6, 172–5
lack thereof, 120n17
ownership inscriptions, 10–11, 26–8, 33, 35, 68–9, 87n37, 88n54, 113, 134, 142–3, 145, 149, 170, 172–3, 175
printed marginalia, 27, 147
Marvell, Andrew, 46, 58n147
melancholy, 74
memorialisation, 160, 169
Mildmay, Grace, 38–40, 188
Milton, John, 46, 58n147
Mordaunt, Elizabeth, 96–7, 104–5

N

Newdigate, Richard (1^st Baronet), 107, 109
Newdigate, Richard (2^nd Baronet), 107–9
Nine Years’ War, 103, 113
Norden, John, 30
Norris, John, 135, 137

O

Osborne, Dorothy, 60, 70, 75–84, 187, 190

P

Packer, Elizabeth, 101
Parliamentarianism, 47, 101
Pawley, Francis, 26
Pepys, Elizabeth, 76
Pepys, Samuel, 76
Perceval, Katherine, 26
piety, 5–7, 20–25, 48, 73, 187
Plat, Hugh, 175–6
plays, 64, 174
Plessis–Mornay, Phillippe du, 35–6
poetry, 29, 64, 77, 167–9
Pole, Anne, 96–7, 106–18, 124n69, 187
Pole, German, 107–9
Pole, Samuel, 107–8, 117
prayer, 23, 30, 37, 53n61
Presbyterianism, 71–2, 102
profit, 60, 64, 72, 75, 77, 82
Puckering, Cicely, 23
Puckering, Elizabeth, 65
Puritanism, 26, 42, 73–4

Q

Quakers, 94

R

Rage of Party, 43, 97
re–reading, 38–40, 66, 150, 159–71, 178–9, 188
Rhodes, Richard, 34, 37, 40–42
Rich, Diana, 78–9
Rich, Mary, 69, 88n59
Rowe, Abigall, 134
Rowe, Mary, 134
Royalism, 26, 34, 43, 47, 62, 67, 77, 103–4, 106, 108, 164, 169

S

Sadleir, Anne, 33, 43–8, 187
Scudéry, Madeleine de, 64–5, 71, 76, 78–80, 91n103
servants, 32, 71–2
sexuality, 5, 63, 85n16, 86n22, 187
Sidney, Philip, 35, 62, 64, 66, 74–5
Arcadia, 85n12, 87n41
Sleigh, Elizabeth, 133
Spenser, Edmund, 66, 74, 77, 91n95

T

Temple, William, 77–83
Thirty Years’ War, 98–9, 101
Tollemache, Elizabeth, 115–17
Townshend, Anne, 68
travelogues, 167, 175

V

Villiers, George (1^st Duke of Buckingham), 32, 166
Vives, Juan Luis, 5–6

W

Weldon, Anthony, 67, 165–6, 181n29
Wentworth Watson, Anne, 145, 150
Whately, William, 21–2, 34, 73
widowhood, 63, 98, 108–9
Williams, Roger, 45–7
Winch, Rebecca, 144
Wolfreston, Frances, 10–12, 60, 172–4
Woolley, Hannah, 64–5, 83, 144, 156n76
Wroth, Mary, 65

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