Aphra Behn (1640 - 1689)

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