Utopian Studies, January 1st, 1997
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 was a middle-class woman with all the plebeian virtues of humour, vitality and courage; a woman forced by the death of her husband and some unfortunate adventures of her own to make her living by her wits" (61). Thus, Aphra Behn appropriated the literary profession for womankind. She paved the way for eighteenth-century writers to write for money...
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