The Secret Life of Aphra Behn

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By Janet Todd. 545 pages including the Index. ISBN 0-8135-2455-5. Aphra Behn (1640?-1689) lived and died with the Restoration with whose licence and liberty she became synonymous. The first woman to earn her living from writing she composed at least nineteen plays fiction poetry and translations and travelled as a spy to Holland and possibly to Surinam in South America on behalf of Charles IIs government. This definitive biography is the first to draw on Behns complete works and newly discovered documents in Britain and the Netherlands.