Aphra Behn

♥ ♥ ♥ Today's Awesome Woman is Aphra Behn (10 July 1640 – 16 April 1689) Novelist, dramatist and spy, she explored female sexuality at a time when it was an unapproachable topic.
Virginia Woolf wrote of her; "All women together, ought to let flowers fall upon the grave of Aphra Behn... for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds."

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The Life of Aphra Behn (1640-1689)

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Biography of Aphra Behn, Restoration woman writer, author of Oroonoko.

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