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Aphra Behn: A Secret Life (Paperback, Revised Edition, Fully Revised with a New Introduction ed.)
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Aphra Behn: A Secret Life (Paperback, Revised Edition, Fully Revised with a New Introduction ed.)
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List price R487
Loot Price R453
Discovery Miles 4 530
You Save R34 (7%)
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The life, work and history of Aphra Behn: seventeenth century
dramatist, poet, novelist, political propagandist, bisexual writer,
and 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-breakingit 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 Woolf 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 revised 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. Janet Todd,
novelist and internationally renowned scholar, was President of
Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and a Professor at Rutgers, NJ.
An expert on women s writing and feminism, she has published on
many writers, including Jane Austen, the Shelley Circle, Mary
Wollstonecraft, and Aphra Behn. "
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