
	Where results make sense

Topic: Aphra Behn

Related Topics

Oroonoko

The Rover (play)

The City Heiress

Restoration comedy

The Rover

Thomas Southerne

Susanna Blamire

1640 in literature

British literature

First novel in English

Margaret Cavendish

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Djuna Barnes

Jules Wijdenbosch

William III of England

In the News (Sun 15 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Aphra Behn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aphra Behn (July 10, 1640 – April 16, 1689) was a prolific dramatist of the Restoration, and considered to be one of the first English professional woman writers.
		Aphra's parents were married in 1638 and Aphra, or Eaffry, was baptized on December 14, 1640.
		Aphra Behn died on April 16, 1689, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aphra_Behn (1043 words)

	Oroonoko - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Behn was not available to correct or confirm any information, early biographers assumed the first person narrator was Aphra Behn speaking for herself and incorporated the novel's claims into their accounts of her life.
		Behn was a lifelong and militant royalist, and her fictions are quite consistent in portraying virtuous royalists and put-upon nobles who are opposed by petty and evil republicans/Parliamentarians.
		Behn was a political writer on the stage and in fiction, and most of her works have distinct, if not didactic, political purposes behind them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oroonoko (4294 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Details about Aphra Behn's life are sketchy, but, among many other things, she lived in South America for a time and was a spy for King Charles II.
		Behn was born around 1640 in Wye, Kent, England (Townsend), but grew-up in Suriname, South America, where she made the acquaintance of the enslaved Negro prince Oroonoko—who would later become the subject of one of her novels.
		After her husband died circa 1666, Behn was hired by King Charles II as a spy in Antwerp, "sending back political and naval information" (Townsend).Because the king wouldn't pay for her return expenses, Behn was thrown in debtor's prison upon her return to England, but probably quickly released (Townsend).
	www.chez.com /bigfish/behnaphr.html (550 words)

	Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
		BEHN, APHRA (otherwise AFRA, APHARA or AYFARA) (1640-1689), British dramatist and novelist, was baptized at Wye, Kent, in 1640.
		Behn brought her into high estimation at court, and--her husband having died by this time--Charles II employed her on secret service in the Netherlands during the Dutch war.
		Aphra Behn Quotes - a collection of quotes attributed to the Restoration dramatist.
	www.theatrehistory.com /british/behn001.html (347 words)

	Aphra Behn
		In Surinam Aphra learned the history, and acquired a knowledge of the African prince Oroonoko and his beloved Imoinda, whose adventures she has related in her novel, Oroonoko.
		Behn brought her into high estimation at court, and her husband having died by this time -- King Charles II employed her on secret service in the Netherlands during the Dutch war.
		Behn died on the 16th of April 1689, and was buried in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey.
	www.nndb.com /people/095/000031999 (323 words)

	Sukipot.com: The Sign of Angellica
		Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was not the first woman writer; neither was she the only woman writer of her day.
		Behn (of which nothing is known), she went to Antwerp as a spy for the crown.
		Aphra Behn was an outsider and an observer from the beginning, and much of her work reflects that.
	www.sukipot.com /angellica/astrea.html (682 words)

	Aphra Behn Bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		She was a spy, she was a writer, she was thrown in prison several times for her debts and her politics, she may or may not have been married and she had a live-in lover for nine years.
		Aphra Behn is considered the first professional English woman writer and originator of the novel in its modern form.
		This honor is often bestowed on Daniel Defoe, but Aphra Behn's Oroonoko (based on her stay with an English colony in Surinam in 1664) predates Defoe's Robinson Crusoe by some seventeen years.
	www.nyct.net /cosmicleopard/Behn_bio.html (279 words)

	Critical Edition of To the Fair Clarinda by Aphra Behn
		Aphra Behn died on 16 April 1689 and was buried in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey.
		Aphra Behn's "To the Fair Clarinda" is a poem that originates in and points to an unique time in British history, a time when attitudes and ideas about everything from politics to human sexuality were being stretched, explored and questioned by bold thinkers of the age.
		Behn's poem seems to borrow the pastoral scene for the setting of "To the Fair Clarinda" as a backdrop to her commentary on the gender inequality of her own contemporary scene.
	www.nku.edu /~issues/clarinda1/dickman.html (2648 words)

	Aphra Behn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Aphra Behn, perhaps the first professional English woman author, was born Aphra Johnson near Canterbury, England in 1640.
		Aphra Behn had at some time previously acquired schooling in languages and in literature and soon turned to writing poetry, novels, and plays to earn a living.
		Aphra Behn's influence was later applauded by Virginia Woolf in A Room of One's Own, but during her own time she was suspected of plagiarism and accused of lewdness because of her gender.
	www.distinguishedwomen.com /biographies/behn.html (306 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Aphra Behn
		During Behn’s childhood, a civil war broke out in England between the Parliament, led by Oliver Cromwell, and the British monarch, Charles I, and it ended with the king's beheading in 1649.
		A favorite at the Court of Charles II, Behn was greatly admired by the King for her outgoing personality and great wit, and she was perhaps employed by him as a spy in Antwerp during the war from 1665 to 1667.
		Behn became notorious in 1682 when she was arrested for writing a polemic centering on the Duke of Monmouth, Charles II's illegitimate son, who thought he had a claim to the throne since Charles II had failed to produce a legitimate heir.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/authors/about_aphra_behn.html (787 words)

	Lynch, Bibliography for Behn's Oroonoko
		They conclude "Behn places her narrator and Imoinda in a relationship of exchange; they take part in a textual transaction in which both are feminized, but in which the white female gathers metaphysical traits unto herself and inscribes the fl female with physical value only" (pp.
		Since a female author was unwelcome in political discourse, Behn articulates her party politics "through the mirror of sexual politics, in which the feminine acts as substitute for the masculine.
		Grant considers Behn's sentimental account of slavery through its descendants in Southerne and Steele, and argues against considering Oroonoko as a "noble savage," a role he gives to the Indians of Surinam: "The idea of the 'noble savage' was attached to America rather than Africa" (p.
	andromeda.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/Biblio/behn.html (2868 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Aphra Behn
		The name Aphra Behn has become synonymous with the renewed interest in early modern women’s writing: she is heralded as the first professional English writer, an important predecessor to writers such as Anne Finch, Jane Barker, Delarivier Manley and Eliza Haywood, and an early proponent of women’s rights.
		Behn’s work is widely available in modern scholarly editions, from Janet Todd’s seven-volume edition of her complete works, The Works of Aphra Behn (1992-6) to the publication of individual texts, such as Catherine Gallagher’s recent edition of Oroonoko (2000).
		Behn has also benefited from a wealth of critical studies from a variety of theoretical and historicist perspectives, focusing on all aspects of her work from feminist explorations of her erotic verse to current postcolonial readings of Oroonoko.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=332 (674 words)

	APHRA BEHN term papers, research papers on APHRA BEHN, essays on APHRA BEHN, Term Papers 2000, Term papers, 060619
		An analysis of the theme of the construction of honour, masculinity and the hero in Aphra Behn's "The Widow Ranter" or "The History of Bacon in Virginia".
		Behn moved from her birthplace near Canterbury in England to Surinam in the West Indies during her childhood, her father died during the crossing, as did the narrators, so we assume that the narrator is Behn herself.
		Behn presents a theory of a "responsibility compact" that is in-line with the new public administration.
	www.termpapers2000.com /lib/essay/Aphra-Behn.html?a=link1 (2466 words)

	The Mediadrome - Poems of the Week: Aphra Behn
		Aphra was born in July, 1640, probably in Harbledown, a small town near Canterbury in the county of Kent in England.
		Aphra Behn continued to write plays, and really this is what her fame really depended on.
		Behn died on the 16th of April 1689, and was buried in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey, which, in view of her reputation at the time, is somewhat surprising.
	www.themediadrome.com /content/articles/words_articles/poems_aphra_behn.htm (2948 words)

	Chawton House Library and Study Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Aphra Behn was probably born around 1640 in Canterbury during the uneasy years of the English Civil War.
		Soon, play after play was appearing on the boards and Aphra Behn became part of the louche and raffish world of the theatre, an anteroom of the court that, under the libidinous Charles II, had grown decidedly corrupt.
		Broadly royalist already, Aphra Behn was not especially political in her early writing years, perhaps because of her experiences in Antwerp.
	www.chawton.org /biography.php?AuthorID=35 (2031 words)

	Review of Todd's edition of Behn's Works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Behn's poetry has never been showcased so coherently and accurately in its entirety, and the prose works are now supplemented by extensive notes accurately detailing literary, political, mythological, and topical references.
		Behn's introduction to her translation of Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle's Entretiens sur La Pluralité des Mondes, entitled A Discovery of New Worlds, shows her not only negotiating between her role as woman and as translator/artist but also securing for herself a speaking role in the male-dominated discourse of the scientific enlightenment (Vol.
		Behn unveils the homosocial role of male rivalry in stimulating heterosexual desire for women and explores the ways in which cross dressing and masquerade complicate and destabilize gender relations.
	locutus.ucr.edu /~cathy/behnrev.html (1799 words)

	Racism in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko - Associated Content
		It is as though Behn thought that her readers could not accept Oroonoko as the hero of her work if he looked too much like the average fl man. He had to be Europeanized in appearance for him to be an acceptable heroic figure.
		For Behn it was making what was clearly at the time of the writing a man of foreign and exotic stock seem more what readers in their European houses would expect a heroic visage to be.
		Behn is clearly being racist in her mindset her, despite desperately wanting the reader to buy into her description of a noble savage.
	www.associatedcontent.com /content.cfm?content_type=article&content_type_id=7307 (878 words)

	[EMLS 3.3 (January, 1998): 12.1-11] Review of Shakespeare, Aphra Behn and the Canon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Shakespeare, Aphra Behn and the Canon is a collection of essays which both introduces the concept of the canon and also includes aspects of performance that affect canonical investigation; it is one of four texts in the series Approaching Literature, designed to introduce students to various aspects of literary study.
		While Shakespeare and Behn seem to be a non-traditonal pairing for a text book, the chapters elaborate on similarities and differences between their works as issues for canonization.
		From the first mention of Behn as a marginalized persona located in a dream sequence of revered poets interred in Westminster Abbey, to his casual mention of the Abbey as her final resting place, Owens portrays her as a major force in British drama.
	www.shu.ac.uk /emls/03-3/rev_bun.html (1727 words)

	Aphra Behn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Aphra Behn's career was unprecedented, her output prodigious, her fame extensive, and her voice distinctive.
		The agent referred to Scott as "Celadon" and Aphra as "Astraea," names the lovers may well have chosen for themselves from a popular French romance; Behn kept hers, as nom de plume, for the whole of her writing life.
		In 1666 Behn herself became the king's spy, sent from London to Antwerp to persuade her old flame Scott to turn informer against his fellow Republicans and to apprise King Charles of rebellious plots.
	occawlonline.pearsoned.com /bookbind/pubbooks/damrosch_awl/chapter4/medialib/behn.html (636 words)

	Isle of Lesbos: Poetry of Aphra Behn
		Aphra Behn (33k JPG image), alleged by Vita Sackville-West to be the first women in England to earn a living as a writer, is a bit of a mystery.
		Aphra's opinions were unconventional, and because she openly expressed her viewpoints in her lifestyle and through her writing, she was seen as scandalous.
		Love Arm'd: Aphra Behn and Her Pen, a play by Karen Eterovic, using the words of Aphra Behn.
	www.sappho.com /poetry/a_behn.html (792 words)

	Aphra Behn (1640-1689) Writer
		Behn was possibly the Eaffry Johnson born to Bartholomew and Elizabeth Johnson in 1640 in Harbledon near Canterbury; in which case, her father was a barber.
		Behn whose identity is not firmly established - he may have been a seaman, a merchant, or a figment of Behn's imagination, dreamed up to give her the respectability of widowhood.
		The attacks against her as a woman writer left her with a feminist consciousness in that she was aware of the disabilities of women as a group.
	www.pinn.net /~sunshine/whm2001/behn.html (1140 words)

	APHRA BEHN
		Behn, who was suspected to be a Dutch merchant in England, but their marriage was a short one as he died two years later.
		Behn was the first professional writer in England.
		Behn arrested for an "abusive" prologue, but probably let off with a warning.
	www.aphrabehnplaywright.blogspot.com (1778 words)

	The Aphra Behn Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Aphra Behn, the first professional woman writer in English, lived from 1640 to 1689.
		John Dryden, she was the most prolific dramatist of the Restoration, but it is for her pioneering work in prose narrative that she achieved her place in literary history.
		Aphra Behn and the impossibility of female authorship (German)
	www.lit-arts.net /Behn/begin-ab.htm (192 words)

	Aphra Behn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		She was born Aphra Johnson in 1640 in Wye, Kent in England.
		Before she became a professional writer, Aphra Behn was a professional spy for England, code-named Astrea or Agent 160.
		Behn died on April 16, 1689 and was buried in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey.
	www2.lhric.org /poCantico/womenenc/behn.htm (206 words)

	AllRefer.com - Aphra Behn (English Literature, 1500 To 1799, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		After the death of her husband, Aphra Behn became an English spy in the Dutch Wars (1665–67), adopting the pseudonym Astrea, under which she later published much of her verse.
		Her career as a secret agent was unsuccessful, and she returned to England exhausted and penniless, forced even to serve time in debtors' prison.
		Aphra Behn was famous for her lifestyle as well as her works; her denial of woman's subservience to man and her high-living, bohemian existence has led critics to describe her as the George Sand of the Restoration and a forerunner of the feminist movement.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Behn-Aph.html (380 words)

	Behn Bibliography (O'Donnell) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lists most of the known Behn manuscripts and their locations, with references to facsimile reprints, along with an index of manuscript copies of a number of Behn's poems.
		Behn by a Gentlewoman of Her Acquaintance," in The Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious Mrs.
		Harrison Platt, "Astrea and Celadon: An Untouched Portrait of Aphra Behn," PMLA 49 (1934), 544-59.
	www.c18.rutgers.edu /biblio/behn.html (3176 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)