Aphra Behn: A Secret Life: (Revised Edition, Fully Revised with a New Introduction ed.)

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 fran