ET seems to have engaged in a real family friendship with Dryden
(who advised her about her ambition to write poetry), since she stayed in touch, after his death, with his son Charles
and his...
Friends, Associates
Mary, Lady Chudleigh
MLC
's circle of friends was largely maintained by correspondence. She discussed literary and philosophical ideas with John Dryden
, Mary Astell
(Almystrea in Chudleigh's poetry), Elizabeth Thomas
, and other women who are...