Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn (;.}} bapt. 14 December 1640 – 16 April 1689) was an English playwright, poet, prose writer and translator 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. She belonged to a coterie of poets and famous libertines such as John Wilmot, Lord Rochester. Behn wrote under the pastoral pseudonym Astrea. During the turbulent political times of the Exclusion Crisis, she wrote an epilogue and prologue that brought her legal trouble; she thereafter devoted most of her writing to prose genres and translations. A staunch supporter of the Stuart line, Behn declined an invitation from Bishop Burnet to write a welcoming poem to the new king William III. She died shortly after.She is remembered in Virginia Woolf's ''A Room of One's Own'': "All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn which is, most scandalously but rather appropriately, in Westminster Abbey, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds." Her grave is not included in the Poets' Corner but lies in the East Cloister near the steps to the church.
Her best-known works are ''Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave'', sometimes described as an early novel, and the play ''The Rover''. Provided by Wikipedia
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by Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689
Published 1913
Published 1913
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by Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689
Published 1967
Published 1967
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by Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689
Published 1995
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by Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689
Published 2000
Published 2000
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by Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689
Published 1997
Published 1997
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by Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689
Published 1984
Published 1984
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by Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689
Published 1987
Published 1987
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by Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689
Published 1950
Published 1950
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by Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689
Published 1992
Published 1992
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Published 2000
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by Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689
Published 1967
Published 1967
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by Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689
Published 1967
Published 1967
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by Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689
Published 1905
Published 1905
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by Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689
Published 1967
Published 1967
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by Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689
Published 1967
Published 1967
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by Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689
Published 1986
Published 1986
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by Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689
Published 1950
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Published 2021
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by Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689
Published 1915
Published 1915
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by Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689
Published 1987
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