Gilbert Burnet

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.

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.

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...

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

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...

SLC brought to the social rituals of visiting some of the same suspicious stance with which she viewed her relations. I visit Some people for the Same Causes as the Indians Worship the Devil, least...

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.

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...

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...

Her range of curiosity of wide. Of orthodox Jews she writes, Is not priestcraft the same in all climes, in all ages, in all forms of worship? She believes that politically disturbing plays ought...

Satires on women, she says, are enough, one would imagine, to make the hardest Forehead blush. But American women apparently do not blush, though they are colonial copy-cats in other ways: you mimick Great...