ABSTRACT
In the 1640s Van Schurman penned two letters in Hebrew and Latin to Dorothy Moore, and two letters in Greek to Bathsua Makin; they appear in her Opuscula. These letters help us understand her educational vision and reception among erudite women in England. Both lived through the tumultuous events of the 1640s and 1650s when England was wracked by intestine wars and London by demonstrations, often led by women; both exercised political agency in exploring institutional social change for the betterment of women's lives. Dury and Moore were married at The Hague in February 1645, at which point they returned to England after a brief stint in Rotterdam where Dury worked as pastor of the English Church. Dorothy Moore's newfound path of service in the church universal, following her correspondence with Andr Rivet, and Bathsua Makin's defence of the higher education of women in some ways parallel the radicalism of Van Schurman.
