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Article: Woolhouse, Roger. John Locke, a Biography.(Book review)
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- The Review of Metaphysics
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- June 1, 2008
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WOOLHOUSE, Roger. John Locke, a Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xviii + 528. Cloth, $39.99--Roger Woolhouse's Locke is the first major biography of John Locke to appear in fifty years and the second to be based on the rich collection of manuscripts (the Lovelace Collection): letters, journals, notebooks, and account books acquired by the Bodleian Library in 1946. Woolhouse has the advantage over his predecessor, Maurice Cranston (John Locke, A Biography, London: Longmans, 1957), of having at hand a descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts, a masterly edition of the letters and scholarly transcriptions and commentary on many of the texts. He has ...