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Love-Letters between a Nobleman and His Sister by Aphra Behn, 1683. Aphra Behn (1640? - 1689) was a British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer from the Restoration era. As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barriers and served as a literary role model for later generations of women authors. Rising from obscurity, she came to the notice of Charles II, who employed her as a spy in Antwerp. Upon her return to London and a probable brief stay in debtors' prison, she began writing for the stage
Part 1Part one is a story of coming of age for a young woman, Silvia. It's about how Philander, her brother-in-law seduces her. More like wears her down.Part 2Silvia's and Philander elope.In order to escape from an arranged marriage to Brilljard, Younge Silvia disguises herself as a man. She elopes to Holland with Philander. But things do not go as planned, and it's not a happily ever after ending for them. They meet Octavio who becomes very good friends with Silivia though at the time he does not know she is a woman. Yet he still falls in love with her and the story get messy. Plenty of love triangle action, gossip, lies and manipulations.Cheating, close call rape, and so on . . .