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Studies

• Acworth, Richard, 2006, “Cursory Reflections upon an Article Entitled ‘What is it with Damaris, Lady Masham?’”, Locke Studies, 6: 189–197. (Scholar)
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• –––, 2003, “Adversaries or Allies? Occasional Thoughts on the Masham-Astell Exchange”, Eighteenth Century Thought, 1: 123–49. (Scholar)
• –––, 2006, “A Woman’s Influence? John Locke and Damaris Masham on Moral Accountability”, Journal of the History of Ideas, 67: 489–510. (Scholar)
• –––, 2019, “Damaris Masham on Women and Liberty of Conscience”, in A Feminist History of Philosophy, Eileen O’Neill and Mary Lascano (eds.), Dordrecht: Springer, 319–36. (Scholar)
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• Frankel, Lois, 1989, “Damaris Cudworth Masham, a Seventeenth-Century Feminist Philosopher”, Hypatia, 4: 80–90. (Scholar)
• –––, 1991, “Damaris Cudworth Masham”, in A History of Women Philosophers: Modern Women Philosophers, 1600–1900 (Volume 3), Mary Ellen Waithe (ed.), Dordrecht, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 73–85. (Scholar)
• Goldie, Mark, 2004, John Locke and the Mashams at Oates, Churchill College: University of Cambridge. (Scholar)
• Hammou, Philippe, 2008, “Enthousiasme et nature humaine: à propos d’une lettre de Locke à Damaris Cudworth”, Revue de Métaphysique et Morale, 3: 337–350. (Scholar)
• Hutton, Sarah, 1993, “Damaris Cudworth, Lady Masham: between Platonism and Enlightenment”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 1: 29–54. (Scholar)
• –––, 2010, “Damaris Masham”, The Continuum Companion to Locke, P. Schuurman and S.-J. Savonius Wroth (eds.), London & New York: Continuum, pp. 72–6. (Scholar)
• –––, 2012, “Religion, Philosophy and Women’s Letters: Anne Conway and Damaris Masham”, Debating the Faith Religion and Letter-Writing in Great Britain, 1550-1800, Anne Dunan-Page and Clotilde Prunier (eds.), Dordrecht: Springer. (Scholar)
• –––, 2014, “Religion and Sociability in the Correspondence of Damaris Masham (1658–1708)”, in Women and Religion, Sarah Apetrei and Hannah Smith (eds.), Farnham: Ashgate, 117–30. (Scholar)
• –––, 2018, “Liberty of Mind: Women Philosophers and the Freedom to Philosophize”, in Women and Liberty, 1600–1800 Philosophical Essays, Jacqueline Broad and Karen Detlefsen (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 123–37. (Scholar)
• Lascano, Marcy B., 2011, “Damaris Masham and The Law of Reason or Nature”, The Modern Schoolman, 88(3–4): 245–265. (Scholar)
• –––, 2018, “‘Heads Cast in Metahysical Moulds’. Damaris Masham on the Method and Nature of Metaphysics”, in Early Modern Women on Metaphysics, Emily Thomas (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1–27. (Scholar)
• –––, 2019, “Women Philosophers and the Cosmological Argument: A Case Study in Feminist History of Philosophy”, in A Feminist History of Philosophy, Eileen O’Neill and Mary Lascano (eds.), Dordrecht: Springer, 23–47. (Scholar)
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• Penaluna, Regan, 2007, “The Social and Political Thought of Damaris Cudworth Masham”, in Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration: Political Ideas of European Women, 1400–1800, Jacqueline Broad and Karen Green (eds.), Dordrecht: Springer, 111–122. (Scholar)
• Phemister, Pauline, 2007, “‘All the time and everywhere everything’s the same as here’: the Principle of Uniformity in the Correspondence between Leibniz and Lady Masham”, in Paul Lodge (ed.), Leibniz and his Correspondents, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Phemister, Pauline, and Justin Smith, 2007, “Leibniz and the Cambridge Platonists and the Debate over Plastic Natures”, in Pauline Phemister and Stuart Brown (eds.), Leibniz’s Philosophy and the English-Speaking World, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 95–110. (Scholar)
• Ready, Kathryn, 2002, “Damaris Cudworth Masham, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, and the Feminist Legacy of Locke’s Theory of Personal Identity”, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 35: 563–76. (Scholar)
• Simonutti, Luisa, 1987, “Damaris Cudworth Masham: una Lady della Repubblica delle Lettere”, Scritti in Onore di Eugenio Garin, Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore, pp. 141–165. (Scholar)
• Sleigh, Robert C., 2005, “Reflections on the Masham-Leibniz Correspondence”, in Early Modern Philosophy: Mind, Matter, and Metaphysics, Christia Mercer and Eileen O’Neill (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
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