num_pages: 453
description: By Janet Todd. 545 pages including the Index. ISBN 0-8135-2455-5. Aphra Behn (1640?-1689) lived and died with the Restoration, with whose licence and liberty she became synonymous. The first woman to earn her living from writing, she composed at least nineteen plays, fiction, poetry and translations, and travelled as a spy to Holland and possibly to Surinam in South America on behalf of Charles II's government. This definitive biography is the first to draw on Behn's complete works and newly discovered documents in Britain and the Netherlands.
language: English
title: The Secret Life of Aphra Behn
titlecomplete: The Secret Life of Aphra Behn
genres: Biography, British Literature, LGBT, 17th Century, Nonfiction, Womens, 18th Century, Feminism, Biography Memoir, History
ratings_count: 95
publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr