Sources also differ as to whether her family were Church of IrelandAnglicans
(following long tradition) and Charlotte later inclined to Methodism
or Evangelicism, like her mother, or whether while many of her relations were...
Cultural formation
Mary Ann Kelty
Retrospectively she remembered that at this time her thoughts were most harrassing, most degrading; yet . . . a holy, yet evanescent sentiment was also present.
Kelty, Mary Ann. Reminiscences of Thought and Feeling. W. Pickering, 1852.
177
Under Simeon's influence she tried to convert Professor...
Friends, Associates
Mary Astell
Elizabeth Hutcheson
(an associate of nonjuring devotional writer William Law
, as was Hastings) later became MA
's executor. Her friendship with Lady Chudleigh
was conducted largely by letter, since Chudleigh lived in Devon. Astell...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Carpenter
She was influenced in this by the writings of William Law
.
Carpenter, J. Estlin. The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter. 2nd ed., MacMillan and Co., 1881.
66
Textual Production
Mary Astell
Books with Astell's annotations survive among those from William Law
's charitable library in Northamptonshire Record Office
and among the survivors of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
's collection in private, family hands. The Northamptonshire books...
Textual Production
Mary Ann Kelty
The same year MAK
issued with her name another small-size religious pamphlet of 61 pages, entitled On Individual Influence, as well as her selected edition of writings by William Law
.
“Newton Library Catalogue”. University of Cambridge: Cambridge University Library and Dependent Libraries.
Textual Production
Mary Ann Kelty
In 1838, a year which saw at least two of her own religious tracts or pamphlets, MAK
also issued an edition which she called Spiritual Fragments, selected from the works of William Law
, M.A...
Timeline
1724: William Law answered Bernard Mandeville in...
Writing climate item
1724
William Law
answered Bernard Mandeville
in Remarks upon a Late Book, Entituled, The Fable of the Bees, arguing that moral or immoral behaviour is chosen rather than socially conditioned.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
By December 1728: William Law published A Serious Call to a...
Writing climate item
By December 1728
William Law
published A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life.
Monthly Catalogue, 1723-1730. Gregg Press.
Texts
Law, William. A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life. William Innys, 1729.