Aphra Behn (1640 - 1689)
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Aphra Behn was ...
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Place(s) of Residence | England , Antwerpen |
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Receptions of Aphra Behn, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
Title | Author | Date | Type |
The Beauties of Biography | ~~author (name unknown) | 1777 | is biography of |
Het leeven van mejuffrouw Aphra Behn The life of Miss Aphra Behn | Unknown journalist (to be identified) | 1798 | is biography of |
"Essai historique sur la poesie anglaise et sur les poetes anglais vivans" | Philarète Chasles | 1821 | mentions person |
Gosselin, Charles (see below) | ~~author male (name below) | 1828 | mentions person |
De l'Influence des femmes | Fanny Mongellaz | 1828 | is biography of |
*titel opzoeken | Klara Mundt | 1849 | is biography of |
*The Intellectual Status of Women | Virginia Woolf | 1920 | mentions person |
A Room of One's Own | Virginia Woolf | 1929 | comments on person |
Vrouwenspiegel: een literair-sociologische studie over de Nederlandse romanschrijfster na 1880 | Annie Romein Verschoor | 1936 | comments on person |
MENTIONED IN:
- Beauvoir, Deuxième sexe, 1949 (ed.Folio 1976, p. 182)
- Lettres européennes (Dutch version 1994) I, 13.
- Stevenson, in Weissbort/Eysteinsson, Translation - Theory and Practice 2009, 138
Cf.
- Mary Ann O'Donnell, Aphra Behn: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources (New York: Garland, 1986; second edition forthcoming, London: Ashgate, 2000).
- Simon 1996, p.52: Her writing career indeed marks the beginning of a new discursive regime for women.
- Jane Spencer, Aphra Behn's Afterlife. Oxford, 2000: Behn's reception history throughout the eighteenth century (England)
first professional woman writer (according to Spender 1992, p.39); translator from French - l'abbé de Tallement (cf Elizabeth Spearing, The politics of translation, in Aphra Behn studies 1996), and also: Sherry Simon, Gender in translation. 1996, p.53-58.
Spy in the service of Charles II