Love letters, some poetic and others merely prurient, were exchanged by this author and the Queen Consort, Catherine Stuart, on whose allegedly "pornographic" basis this writer was denied burial in Westminster Abbey alongside another of her paramours, Sir Richard Lovelace, who may have addressed her in the "Lucasta" poems.
Virginia Woolf claimed in 1929 that she never had and never would lay flowers on any grave except the grave of this writer. Love letters, some poetic and others merely prurient, were exchanged by this author and the Queen Consort, Catherine Stuart, on whose allegedly "pornographic" basis this writer was denied burial in Westminster Abbey alongside another of her paramours, Sir Richard Lovelace, who may have addressed her in the "Lucasta" poems. Her roman-a-clef trilogy, "Love Letters between a Nobleman and His Sister" was published under the code-name "Astrea," assigned to her when she was a spy for Charles II, but she is better known for her comedy The Rover. FTP, identify this Suriname-born authoress of Oroonoko, one of the earliest English novelists.
Virginia Woolf claimed in 1929 that she never had and never would lay flowers on any grave except the grave of this writer.
Aphra {Behn}