Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
… men were deeply impressed by Greatrakes’s personal charisma and apparent gift and spread the news in their numerous letters and correspondences of the queer wonder throughout the country (Duffy 259) . ‘Greatrix the Stroker [ was ] … The extensive correspondence kept by Lady Anne can be found in Marjorie Hope Nicolson and Sarah Hutton (eds), The Conway Letters: The Correspondence of Anne, Viscountess Conway, Henry More, and their Friends 1642-1684 (Oxford University … life, and kept in touch with members of the elitarian group he had joined in England . He went on exchanging lengthy letters with the magistrate Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, one of his ‘leading patrons in London, and the President of the …
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