TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Précis

 

List of Images

 

I. Literary Picklock: The Authorship Debate

 

II. Flashpoint: The "Butterfly" in My Net

 

III. Graphic Wit: The Eureka Piece in the Puzzle

 

VI. Hermeneutics: The Portrait & Poems of Ephelia

 

V. Ephelia in English Song; with Audio Clip

 

Concluding Remarks

 

Acknowledgements

 

Works Cited

 

Appendix A: A Key to Female Poems ... by Ephelia (1679)

 

Appendix B: Mary Villiers's Literary Genealogy

 

Appendix C: Comparing Stuart Faces: Buckingham & Jermyn

 

Appendix D: A New Text in the Ephelia Canon

 

Appendix E: Ephelia's Grand Spotted Moth

 

Appendix F: "Ephelia's Orange Tip"

 

Appendix G: Title-page of the Defensio Regia

 

A Note on the Author, with Photo