5/8/2023 0 Comments Love Letters Between a Certain Late Nobleman and the Famous M... by Michael S. KimmelFirst, some argue that it is the first novel in English. The novel has been of interest for several reasons. The copyright holder was Joseph Hindmarsh, later joined by Jacob Tonson. The Second Part by the Same Hand (1685), and The Amours of Philander and Silvia (1687). It was originally published as three separate volumes: Love-Letters Between a Noble-Man and his Sister (1684), Love-Letters from a Noble Man to his Sister: Mixt with the History of Their Adventures. The novel is "based loosely on an affair between Ford, Lord Grey of Werke, and his wife's sister, Lady Henrietta Berkeley, a scandal that broke in London in 1682". Some scholars claim that the attribution to Behn remains in dispute. The first volume, published in 1684, lays some claim to be the first English novel. Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister is a three-volume roman à clef by Aphra Behn playing with events of the Monmouth Rebellion and exploring the genre of the epistolary novel.
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