Aphra Behn: A Secret Life (Todd Janet)(Paperback)

The life, work and history of Aphra Behn: seventeenth -century dramatist, poet of the erotic and bisexual, novelist, political propagandist, spy.Praise for the first hardback edition: "Fascinating scholarship. Todd conveys Behn's vivacious character and the mores of the time." --the New York Times"Ground-breaking--it reads quickly and lightly. Even Todd's throwaway lines are steeped in learning and observation." --Ruth Perry, MIT, Women's Review of Books"A major biography; of interest to everyone who cares about women as writers." --Times Higher Education Supplement"Fascinating, a page-turner and a delight, an astonishingly thorough book." --Emma Donoghue"All women together ought to let flowers fall on the tomb of Aphra Behn. . . . For it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds." --Virginia
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