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A Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery, with a Dissertation on the More Celebrated of the Alchemical Philosophers, being an Attempt towards the Recovery of the Ancient Experiment of Nature by Mary Anne Atwood
This is a nice hardcover facsimile reprint of the 1918 William Tait edition of this important work on Hermetic philosophy, which includes an Introduction by Walter Leslie Wilmshurst and “an Appendix containing the Memorabilia of Mary Anne Atwood.”
Mary Anne Atwood (née South), (1817–1910), wrote A Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Philosophy (1850) at her father’s request. Thomas South paid for the book to be published anonymously in 1850, but without having read it, trusting his daughter’s judgement. Reading it after publication, he believed Mary Anne had revealed many hermetic secrets that were better left unpublished, and therefore bought up the remaining stock and, with his daughter, burnt them, along with the unfinished manuscript of his poem. Only a few copies of the book survived.
Ms. Atwood published nothing after A Suggestive Inquiry. Walter Leslie Wilmshurst, in his 1918 introduction to the reissue, laments that the thoughts of her later years did not find fruition in another work. He claims, however, that there is much to be found in her papers, of which he was then in possession. These have not yet been published. The special collections archive of the Brown University library currently holds around 700 of Ms. Atwood’s letters.
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