John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester

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

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Textual Features Ephelia
Not all the poems in the volume are written in Ephelia's voice (which adds an extra dimension to argument over the ascription of those written in other voices). It seems that Ephelia enjoyed ventriloquizing the...
Textual Production Aphra Behn
AB marked Rochester 's early death with an elegy warmly praising his poetry and his charisma.
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press.
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Textual Production Lucy Hutchinson
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...
Textual Production Aphra Behn
AB 's poems were mostly opportunistic in some way, seizing the chances offered her, either by projects of literary colleagues or by royal or other grand occasions, to make some money. She makes much use...
Textual Production Katherine Philips
Letters from KP began appearing in print with Familiar Letters written by Lord Rochester and others; four further compilations followed before 1700.
Philips, Katherine. “Introduction and Textual Notes”. The Collected Works of Katherine Philips, The Matchless Orinda, Volume II: The Letters, edited by Patrick Thomas, Stump Cross Books, p. xi - xviii.
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Philips, Katherine. Collected Works. Editors Thomas, Patrick et al., Stump Cross Books.
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Textual Production Jean Plaidy
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...
Textual Production Anne Wharton
AW wrote an elegy on the death of her uncle Rochester .
Wharton, Anne. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton. Editors Greer, Germaine and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, http://BLC.
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Wharton, Anne. “Introduction”. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, edited by Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, pp. 1-124.
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Textual Production Anne Wharton
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.
Wharton, Anne. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton. Editors Greer, Germaine and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, http://BLC.
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Wharton, Anne. “Introduction”. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, edited by Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, pp. 1-124.
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Textual Production Ephelia
The book was handsomely produced, having a decorated dedication page, and a frontispiece featuring an oval portrait (or fictitious portrait) of Ephelia, with a heraldic badge above the picture and a pedestal bearing her engraved...
Textual Production Germaine Greer
GG has published a good deal in her scholarly field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women's writing. Her anthology (with Susan Hastings , Jeslyn Medoff and Melinda Sansone ), Kissing the Rod, has played an...

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