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Aphra Behn | | Variant Name: |
Aphra Amis, Aphra Johnson, Ayfara, Aphara, Afray, Astrea | | Birth Date: |
c. 1640 | | Death Date: |
April 16, 1689 | | Place of Birth: |
Harbledown, Kent, England | | Place of Death: |
England | | Nationality: |
English | | Gender: |
Female | | Occupations: |
writer |
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 Biography of Aphra Behn
7,196 words, approx. 24 pages
 Aphra Behn was one of the best and most successful comic writers in a great age of English comedy. If her plays are less polished than those of George Etherege and William Wycherley, it must be remembered that, unlike them, she had to support herself:... summary from source:
Biography of Aphra Behn
6,023 words, approx. 20 pages
All women writers, observed Virginia Woolf in A Room of One's Own (1928), "ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds." The prolific Behn was the first professional female writer... summary from source:
Biography of Aphra Behn
4,272 words, approx. 14 pages
Aphra Behn, one of the most influential dramatists of the late seventeenth century, was also a celebrated poet and novelist. Her contemporary reputation was founded primarily on her "scandalous" plays, which she claimed would not have been criticized...
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 Aphra Behn Quotes
438 words, approx. 2 pages
 Aphra Behn , née Aphra Johnson ( 1640-07-10 – 1689-04-16 ) was a prolific Restoration dramatist and writer of amatory fiction . She was one of the first English professional woman writers. Sourced No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea. The...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Behn, Aphra
119 words, approx. 1 pages(born July 1640, Harbledown?, Kent, Eng.—died April 16, 1689, London) English dramatist, novelist, and poet, the first Englishwoman known to earn her living by writing. Her early life is obscure (as is her original surname), but she spent most of... summary from source:
 Aphra Behn Information
2,430 words, approx. 8 pages
Aphra Behn (July 10, 1640 – April 16, 1689) was a prolific dramatist of the Restoration and was one of the first English professional female writers. Her writing participated in the amatory fiction genre of British...
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 Utopian Studies Aphra Behn.
01/01/1997: 1,183 words, approx. 4 pages S.J. Wiseman. Plymouth: Northcote House Publishers, 1996. xi + 116 pp. L0.99. In A Room of One's Own (London, 1930) Virginia Woolf gave Aphra Behn a special position in the history of invisible and disregarded women writers. She writes that "Mrs Behn... summary from source:
The Hunter Envoy Aphra Behn...and Her Pen
11/13/2002: 522 words, approx. 2 pages King Charles II sends a single woman in her late 20s to Belgium to act as a spy. When the time comes for her to return, however, he refuses to pay her fare. She is forced to borrow the money and upon her return...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Angeline Goreau
8,855 words, approx. 30 pages
Here, Goreau traces the critical and popular reaction to some of Behn's works, focusing especially on the writer's criticism of the "property-marriage system" in her plays.
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Critical Essay by Judith Kegan Gardiner
8,780 words, approx. 29 pages
An American critic and educator, Gardiner has published a study on the verse of English poet and dramatist Ben Jonson and has also contributed essays to several publications devoted to feminist criticism and scholarship. In the following essay, she states that Behn expressed in her verse a desire for the liberation of women from repressive social and political norms.
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Critical Essay by Nancy Cotton
7,337 words, approx. 25 pages
Below, Cotton studies the development of Behn's career and the course of critical reaction to her work.
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