Aphra Behn: A Voice That Would Not Wait Its Turn

Aphra Behn: A Voice That Would Not Wait Its Turn Some writers enter history quietly, almost by accident. Others arrive because they must speak. Aphra Behn belongs to the second kind. Writing in seventeenth-century England, Aphra Behn became one of the first women in England to earn her living entirely through her words. At a time when women were expected to remain private, dependent, and largely silent in public life,…

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