Aphra Behn (1640 - 1689)

Short name Aphra Behn
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First name Aphra
Birth name Behn
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Alternative name Ann Behn , Mrs. Bean , Astraea
Date of birth 1640
Date of death 1689
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Sex Female
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Place of death Westminster (London)
Lived in England , Antwerpen
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Place(s) of Residence England , Antwerpen
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