Gilbert Burnet

Friends of her later years included Dr Fitzwilliam and Gilbert Burnet .

EB 's friendship with Sarah Churchill, later Duchess of Marlborough (like that with her future husband, Gilbert Burnet , and his second wife, Mary ), dated back to the years when they were all in...

During her London years she was an ally of Damaris Masham , but quarrelled with Delarivier Manley . She found both a patron and a friend in Sarah, Lady Piers (who wrote poetry herself). She...

Gilbert Burnet wrote to AW for the first time; she had consulted him over her religious doubts.

AW wrote angrily to Burnet , who had sent her counsel and reproof on hearing (falsely) that she was parting from her husband.

AW corresponded with Gilbert Burnet , who had converted Rochester on his deathbed. They exchanged poems and discussed religion; Burnet perhaps saw her as another soul to be saved.

AB has been repeatedly fictionalised in recent years. Ross Laidlaw published in 1992 a fiction, Aphra Behn—Dispatch'd from Athole, which added a coda to her life. In his story Gilbert Burnet enlists her to...

Elizabeth Berkeley became the third wife of Gilbert Burnet , Scottish scholar, politician, historian, and Bishop of Salisbury. She was thirty-nine, he fifty-seven.

Nevertheless she writes that at about eight she was quite uneducated, except reading and plain-work. She then received a polite education from the Dutchwoman Catalina Schuyler of Albany, New York, whom she called...

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester , poet and libertine, died worn out at not much past thirty, after a death-bed conversion orchestrated and subsequently publicised by Gilbert Burnet (later Bishop of Salisbury).

She was buried with her first husband , because of a promise made long before her death. Gilbert Burnet died on 17 March 1715.

Her mother was of Welsh and her father of English descent. There was no basis for the family belief that the distinguished seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Scottish churchman Gilbert Burnet was an ancestor.