Mary Butler, Duchess of Ormonde

The full title is Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality, of Both Sexes. From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediterranean.

PA was apparently left executrix and sole beneficiary by the will of a young Oxford scholar named Thomas Mannington Gibbs . He had translated from the French of Marin Le Roy de Gomberville a work...