John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester

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

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

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...

LH , with the poet Lord Rochester and his mother Anne, Countess of Rochester (her cousin), visited her patron Lord Anglesey .

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...

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...

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...

AW 's uncle Lord Rochester , notorious as rake and poet and later as a deathbed penitent, was a formative influence on her life.

She came from a line of distinguished literary amateurs, and was a collateral descendant of the poet Lord Rochester .

AW 's education was above average: she learned French and Italian. Her uncle Rochester , she said, taught her the difficult, sacred art of poetry.