Irish PhilosophyFeb 22, 2023

Do love this paper, not least for its title

"What the Women of Dublin Did with John Locke"

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/royal-institute-of-philosophy-supplements/article/abs/what-the-women-of-dublin-did-with-john-locke/55BF4CAA5787ACA9A0CEFDE174A15B9A

#locke #dublin #Triumfeminate #earlymodons #IrishPhilosophy

What the Women of Dublin Did with John Locke | Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements | Cambridge Core

What the Women of Dublin Did with John Locke - Volume 88

Cambridge Core
Show threadIrish PhilosophyNov 30, 2022

The following years saw #JonathanSwift write his masterpiece "Gulliver's Travels" and the remarkable and still shocking "A Modest Proposal" #BBCInOurTime https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00h3650

And a host of other pamphlets, poems and sermons.

Swift made enemies but also many friends, including a coterie of literary women whom he encouraged and supported, and who defended him in return after his death.
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2019/04/07/the-triumfeminate-and-other-dublin-women-swifts-female-senate/
#triumfeminate #WomensWriting

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Swift's A Modest Proposal

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jonathan Swift's satirical 1729 pamphlet A Modest Proposal

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