When a comedy by MC
's husband the Duke of Newcastle, The Humorous Lovers, was acted in 1667, many of the audience (including Samuel Pepys
and Aphra Behn
's lover Jeffrey Boys
) supposed...
Family and Intimate relationships
Aphra Behn
AB
's biographer Janet Todd identifies Amyntas, her London lover after her Antwerp period, as Jeffrey Boys
, a young lawyer. He called her Astrea. His diary for 1667, now in the Bodleian Library
