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778 who maintained a literary correspondence with her, and by shewing her letters, spread her fame into foreign countries. This procured her letters from eminent men, and her name became so famous, that persons of the first distinction, even princesses, paid her visits; and cardinal Richelieu shewed her marks of his esteem.

About the year 1650, she made a visible alteration in her religious system. She no longer went to public worship, but performed her devotions in private; which occasioned a report that she was inclined to popery; but the truth was, she had attached herself to Labadie, the famous Quietist, and embracing his principles and practices, accompanied him wherever he went. She lived some time with him at Altena, in Holstein, where she attended him at his death in 1674. She afterwards retired to Wiewart, in Friseland, where Mr. William Penn, the Quaker, visited her in 1677; and died at this place, 1678. She took for her device these words of St. Ignatius, Amor meus crucifixus est, my love is crucified.

Her works are, "De Vitæ Humanæ Termino." Ultraject. 1639. "Dissertatio de Ingenii Muliebris ad Doctrinam; and Meliores Literas aptitudine." ''Lugd. Bat.'' 1641. These two pieces, with letters in French, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, to her learned correspondents, were printed at Leyden, 1648, in 12 mo. under the title of "A. M. a Schurman Opuscula, Hebræa, Græca, Latina, Gallica; Prosaica et Metrica." Enlarged in the edition of Utrecht, 1652. She wrote afterwards, "Eukleria, seu Melioris Partis Electio." This is a defence of her attachment to Labadie, and was