John Wilmot second Earl of Rochester

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Standard Name: Rochester, John Wilmot,,, second Earl of
Used Form: Lord Rochester

Connections

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Education Anne Wharton
AW 's education was above average: she learned French and Italian. Her uncle Rochester , she said, taught her the difficult, sacred art of poetry.
Wharton, Anne. “Introduction”. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, edited by Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, 1997, pp. 1-124.
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Wharton, Anne. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton. Editors Greer, Germaine and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, 1997, http://BLC.
140
Family and Intimate relationships Violet Fane
She came from a line of distinguished literary amateurs,
Fane, Violet. “Introduction”. Poems, John C. Nimmo, 1892, p. v - viii.
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and was a collateral descendant of the poet Lord Rochester .
Fredeman, William E., and Ira Bruce Nadel, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 35. Gale Research, 1985.
35: 76
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Wharton
AW 's uncle Lord Rochester , notorious as rake and poet and later as a deathbed penitent, was a formative influence on her life.
Fictionalization Aphra Behn
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...
Friends, Associates Aphra Behn
AB was intimate with the writers' and artists' circles of her day. She befriended Thomas Otway , and allowed him to act in her first play, when he was an insecure youth of nineteen. She...
Friends, Associates Lucy Hutchinson
LH , with the poet Lord Rochester and his mother Anne, Countess of Rochester (her cousin), visited her patron Lord Anglesey .
Greer, Germaine. “Horror like Thunder”. London Review of Books, 21 June 2001, pp. 22-4.
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Hutchinson, Lucy. “Introduction, Chronology”. Order and Disorder, edited by David Norbrook, Blackwell, 2001, p. i - lviii.
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Friends, Associates John Dryden
Of these female disciples, Mary, Lady Chudleigh , and the younger Elizabeth Thomas enjoyed personal friendships with JD . But his career was conspicuous for professional enmities as well as friendships. His feud with Thomas Shadwell
Friends, Associates Ephelia
If Ephelia's poems of compliment are taken to imply personal friendship, she may have been a friend of Aphra Behn , whom she praises warmly and with polite humility about her own abilities in her...
Friends, Associates Mary More
MM 's friends included, in London, a number of scientists or natural philosophers: inventor Robert Hooke (who often visited her, and with whom she discussed dreams), physician and collector Sir Hans Sloane , and scholar...
Intertextuality and Influence Sarah Green
The plot owes something to Charlotte Lennox 's Female Quixote. The father of Green's heroine has lived through many crazes for novelists: first Burney , then Radcliffe , then Owenson , then Rosa Matilda
Intertextuality and Influence Sarah Lady Cowper
SLC flags some items of her own under Observe by beginning them I observe. In a series about books of the Bible she comments in some detail on the behaviour of King Saul and...
Intertextuality and Influence Barbara Pym
BP began this novel as a story about Hilary and me as spinsters of fiftyish—that is, about a then unimaginable future. Its dry humour and irony, its concentration on middle-aged spinsters, clergy, and the...
Textual Features Aphra Behn
The poem belongs to a contemporary sub-genre describing masculine sexual failure, but such poems are generally written (like the well-known one by Rochester ) from a male viewpoint. It is fast-moving and funny. It lusciously...
Textual Features Sarah Green
It opens in France and England during what was in England the interregnum period, and moves onwards into the reign of Charles II . The heroine writes her story retrospectively in a letter to a...
Textual Features Lucy Hutchinson
Lucretius , as a pagan philosopher and theologian (and, as LH and her contemporaries believed, insane much of the time and sexually promiscuous), was a daring choice for one of her religious opinions.
Lucretius, and Lucretius. “Introduction”. Lucy Hutchinson’s Translation of Lucretius, "De rerum natura", edited by Hugh De Quehen, translated by. Lucy Hutchinson, University of Michigan Press, 1996, pp. 1-20.
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Timeline

Probably 11 March 1676: George Etherege's final comedy, The Man of...

Writing climate item

Probably 11 March 1676

George Etherege 's final comedy, The Man of Mode, was first performed.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.

After 26 July 1680: Following Lord Rochester's death, his Poems...

Writing climate item

After 26 July 1680

Following Lord Rochester 's death, his Poems on Several Occasions were anonymously published.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Texts

Rochester, John Wilmot, second Earl of et al. Familiar Letters. 1st ed., Samuel Briscoe, 1697, 2 vols.
Behn, Aphra, and John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester. “The Disappointment”. Poems on Several Occasions, 1680, p. F6v - G1r.