Gilbert Burnet

During the 1690s, long before her involvement with a charity school for poor girls, MA apparently hoped to found a community of serious-minded, self-educating, middle-class, single women, of the kind she recommends in A Serious...

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...

In the month of AB 's death there appeared her Pindaric Poem to the Reverend Doctor Burnet , on the Honour he did me of Enquiring after me and my Muse.

Wharton's warm appreciation carried a hint of good advice to AB : bid your Muse maintain a Vestal Fire. Nevertheless it drew a resounding condemnation of Behn's work from Gilbert Burnet , who took...

After James II had fled the country in 1688, AB received a flattering invitation from Gilbert Burnet (who in 1682 had tried to divide her from Anne Wharton on moral grounds) to welcome the new...

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

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...

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

EB began writing a volume of Meditations not long after she had married Gilbert Burnet as her second husband. This survives among her papers in the Bodleian Library, bound in MS Rawlinson D 1092.

On her death the same leading publishing house at once re-issued the book in a second edition, with her name, a frontispiece featuring her portrait (engraved by M. Vandergucht after Kneller ), and a memoir...

Her husband Gilbert Burnet called EBone of the most extraordinary persons that has lived in this age. Though C. Kirchberger in 1949 described her life and thought as a last flowering...

MC told Mary Barber that she would have liked to write the history of her own times (no doubt, says Rumbold, in opposition to the publication of that title by the Whig 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.

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...

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...