oursin: Brush the Wandering Hedgehog by the fire (Default)
oursin ([personal profile] oursin) wrote in [personal profile] white_hart 2019-02-13 07:11 pm (UTC)

I'm not sure she would have encountered it before coming across Behn's collected works in Lord R-'s library: I don't think Behn's poems were terribly well-known by the early C19th ('unsuited to the more refined taste of the present day' - especially the one about impotence, perhaps), and that she would by then have been mostly remembered for Oronooko

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