The complete online text of The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Aphra Behn.

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: sh...

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 i...

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 for...

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...

All women writers of the last three centuries "ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn," wrote Virginia Woolf in 1929, "for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds." Behn, who died...