Masham's

Lady Masham's philosophical writings constituted only a small part of her philosophical activity.

Lady Damaris Masham Hutton, Sarah 2007

Lady Masham's critique of Norris and Astell is also aimed, indirectly, at Nicolas Malebranche, of whom Norris was the most important English disciple.

Lady Damaris Masham Hutton, Sarah 2007

Fiction brought up during the discussion included James Blish's "Surface Tension" (miniature humans living in a shallow pool, making a journey of discovery to the nearest other pool); The Borrowers, Mistress Masham's Repose, the Moomintroll books, and several books by some guy named Pratchett.

Minicon and back again. 2005

Lady Masham's defence of her father's True Intellectual System of the Universe is revealing in a number of ways.

Lady Damaris Masham Hutton, Sarah 2007

(In Masham's view, Roman Catholicism, with its stress on the externals of religion is largely superstition).

Lady Damaris Masham Hutton, Sarah 2007

In a sense, Masham's work on education epitomizes the Enlightenment stereotype: education being key to the moral society, it is essential for us to have better and more widely available education in order to improve our morals.

Masham's Occasional Thoughts 2006

Masham's philosophical education was enviable according to anyone's standards: the daughter of Cambridge Platonist Ralph Cudworth at one point even corresponding with Leibniz on his philosophy, she became closely associated with John Locke -- his patron, in fact.

Masham's Occasional Thoughts 2006

Masham's primary argument in Occasional Thoughts is that, because mothers are, in their own way, the first and most formative educational influences, it is essential for women to be brought up well-educated and treated as rational creatures.

Masham's Occasional Thoughts 2006

They were down at the door by which they had entered, and Masham's servant-in-waiting there was dispatched for the horses.

The Highwayman 1919

"But this woman I was telling you about -- Masham's aunt --"

Jacob's Room Virginia Woolf 1911