Article: "Butterfly" of the Restoration court: a preview of Lady Mary Villiers, the new "Ephelia" candidate.(English Restoration pseudonymous writer)

Chains of scholarly reasoning sometimes begin with evidence that is very fragile.

Roger Stoddard

For over three centuries, "Ephelia" has held a distinguished place in English pseudonyma as a complex, if not impenetrable, case. Specialists know her as a curious minor writer whose material Circulated during the early decades of the Restoration. Her canon of fewer than seventy poems is diversified in subject matter and genre: lyrics on obsessive love, political broadsides to the Stuarts. acrostics, verse-epistles to a highly placed coterie, elegies on Archbishop Gilbert Sheldon and Sir Thomas Isham, a burlesque farce (possibly against Charles II and his brother ...

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