The Secret Life of Aphra Behn by Janet Todd [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING] 2000 • Pandora U.K.

The Secret Life of Aphra Behn by Janet Todd

FIRST U.K. PAPERBACK PRINTING [2000] PANDORA

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The life, work and history of Aphra Behn: the first professional female writer.  Seventeenth ­century dramatist, poet, novelist, political propagandist, bisexual writer, and spy.

Aphra Behn, a spy in the Netherlands and the Americas, was the first professional woman writer. The most prolific dramatist of her age, innovative novelist, translator, lyrical and erotic poet, she expresses a frank sexuality addressing impotence, orgasm and bisexuality, whilst serving as political propagandist for the monarch.

This biography of the extraordinary, ground-breaking writer, who is emblematic of the Restoration period, a time of masks and self-fashioning, is set in conflict-ridden England, Europe, and in the mismanaged slave colonies, following the Puritan republic in 1660.