John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester

The printed edition has a preface which repudiates Lucretius, whose work in the original the translator now believes to be harmful to its readers. With the five reprinted cantos David Norbrook prints fifteen more, which...

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...

Letters from KP began appearing in print with Familiar Letters written by Lord Rochester and others; four further compilations followed before 1700.

Lucy Walter (who had become a fictional heroine early, in Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy 's Memoirs of the Court of England, 1695, and was soon to be treated by Elizabeth Goudge in The Child from the...

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...

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...

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

AW wrote an elegy on the death of her uncle Rochester .

AW voiced, in To Mrs. A. Behn, On what she Writ of the Earl of Rochester, delight at Behn 's fame and the honour it conferred on women.

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