Thomas Taylor Lewis

Brilliana Conway (later BLH ) was born at Brill in Holland, the second daughter in her family of six children who survived. (Most sources give a later date.)

Her long feminist polemic Hypatia was written in response to an ongoing controversy between radical John Toland and reactionary Thomas Lewis (both equally at odds with Tollet's thinking). Toland praised Hypatia and excoriated the persecuting...