Behn, Aphra (1640 - 1689)
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| Short name | Behn, Aphra |
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| VIAF | http://viaf.org/viaf/19715508/ |
| First name | Aphra |
| Birth name | Behn |
| Married name | Behn |
| Alternative name | Ann Behn — Mrs. Bean — Astraea |
| Date of birth | 1640 |
| Date of death | 1689 |
| Flourishing | - |
| Sex | Female |
| Place of birth | Kent |
| Place of death | Westminster (London) |
| Lived in | England , Antwerpen |
| Place of residence notes | Possibly spent time in Surinam |
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| Aristocratic title | - |
| Professional or ecclesiastical title | - |
| Behn, Johan | 1664-1665 |
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| Place(s) of Residence | England , Antwerpen |
Author of
| receptions | circulations | |
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| The forc'd marriage (1671) | 0 | 0 |
| The Amorous Prince (1671) | 0 | 0 |
| The Dutch lover (1673) | 0 | 0 |
| Abdelazer (1676) | 0 | 0 |
| The Town-Fop: or Sir Timothy Tawdrey. A Comedy (1676) | 0 | 0 |
| The Rover, or The Banish'd Cavaliers (1677) | 2 | 0 |
| Sir Patient Fancy (1678) | 0 | 0 |
| The Feigned Courtesans (1679) | 0 | 0 |
| The City-Heiress; or Sir Timothy Treat-all (1682) | 0 | 0 |
| Love letters between a nobleman and his sister (1683) | 4 | 0 |
| The Adventure of the Black Lady (1684) | 0 | 0 |
| The lucky chance (1686) | 0 | 1 |
| The Lover's Watch, or, The Art of Making Love (1686) | 0 | 1 |
| The Emperor of the Moon (1687) | 0 | 0 |
Agnes de Castro, or The Force of Generous Love
(1688)
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1 | 0 |
| Oroonoko, or the royal slave (1688) (1688) | 21 | 0 |
| The Fair Jilt (1688) | 0 | 0 |
| The Lucky Mistake, a new novel (1689) | 0 | 0 |
| Behn's histories and novels (1700) | 1 | 0 |
| Mrs Behn's Plays (1740) | 0 | 1 |
Editor of
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-Illustrator of
-Translator of
-Circulations of Behn, Aphra, the person (for circulations of her works, see under each individual Work)
| Title | Date | Type |
Receptions of Behn, Aphra, the person
For receptions of her works, see under each individual Work.
| Title | Author | Date | Type |
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| Peter Lely, Portrait of Aphra Behn, c. 1670, Yale Center for British Art | Lely, Peter | 1670 | is portrait of |
| The Beauties of Biography | UNKNOWN [author, various, name and sex 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 | - |
| De l'Influence des femmes | Mongellaz, Fanny | 1828 | is biography of |
| Gosselin, Charles (see below) | [author male, various] [CREATE SEPARATE RECORDS] | 1828 | - |
| *titel opzoeken | Mühlbach, Luise | 1849 | is biography of |
| *The Intellectual Status of Women | Woolf, Virginia | 1920 | - |
| A Room of One's Own | Woolf, Virginia | 1929 | comments on person |
| Vrouwenspiegel: een literair-sociologische studie over de Nederlandse romanschrijfster na 1880 | Romein Verschoor, Annie | 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