Aphra Behn's Love-Letters Between a Noble-Man and his Sister (1684) became the first part of a three volume roman à clef playing with events of the Monmouth Rebellion and exploring the genre of the epistolary novel.

Links to vols 2 and 3:

• Love Letters From a Noble Man to his Sister, pt. 2 (1685)
• The Amours of Philander and Silvia, pt. 3 (1687)

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Bibliographical Details

Title Page Transcript

Love-Letters| Between a| NOBLE-MAN| And his| SISTER.| ^*| LONDON,| Printed, and are to be sold by| Randal Taylor near Stationer’s| Hall. MDCLXXXIV.

Description

p.titlepage/ p.^* "The Argument"/ p.1-344 Text/ 12°

Contents

Dedication

The Argument

Plot

Commentary

Literature

Cf. detailed bibliography at The Novel in Europe, 1650-1749

E-text

Aphra Behn, Love-Letters between a Noble-Man and his Sister, pts. 1-3 (1684/ 1685/ 1687).