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The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume 5
Aphra Behn
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Aphra Behn was the first woman writer in England to make a living by her pen, and her novel Oroonoko was the first work published in English to express sympathy for African slaves. Perhaps based partly on Behn's own experiences living in Surinam, the novel tells the tragic story of a noble slave, Oroonoko, and his love Imoinda. The work was an instant success and was adapted for the stage in 1695
Aphra Behn was the first woman writer in England to make a living by her pen, and her novel Oroonoko was the first work published in English to express sympathy for African slaves. Perhaps based partly on Behn's own experiences living in Surinam, the novel tells the tragic story of a noble slave, Oroonoko, and his love Imoinda. The work was an instant success and was adapted for the stage in 1695
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After this, I need not tell you, he made Miranda a Visit; and from that Day never left her Apartment, but when he went home at Nights, or unless he had Business; so entirely was he conquer’d by this Fair One. But the Bishop, and several Men of Quality, in Orders, that profess’d Friendship to him, advised him from her Company; and spoke several Things to him, that might (if Love had not made him blind) have reclaimed him from the Pursuit of his Ruin. But whatever they trusted him with, she had the Art to wind herself about his Heart, and make him unravel all his Secrets; and then knew as well, by feign’d Sighs and Tears, to make him disbelieve all; so that he had no Faith but for her; and was wholly inchanted and bewitch’d by her. At last, in spite of all that would have opposed it, he marry’d this famous Woman, possess’d by so many great Men and Strang. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
It's hard to know where to come down on Behn. Her life and career were very interesting, but her determined monarchism and casual racism make her difficult to accept in a modern framework. I read her mostly from a historian's perspective, and each of the works collected here offers interesting comme
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Love letters to a gentleman was the most heart moving work I have read by a woman. She has captured the female dilemma perfectly and it’s comforting to see that someone knows and feels the same as you but is blessed to put it so eloquently. Her voice is ahead of its time it’s so genuine and sound I
Girlboss.
I didn't pay too much close attention to the plays but there is a really impressive range across the selection here - Behn was basically a pioneer in every genre in the restoration. I don't think the novels add up to much, and the plays are stilted and formal in a way that pre-interregnum drama isn'
This was a really surprising read - I had read of Behn’s work in passing at university and had awareness of her as this rather exceptional person, trail blazing for women writers and frankly living an extraordinary life for a 17th century woman.
I came across her again as part of post-colonial readin
I enjoyed the short stories in this but I really struggled with the plays and could not get into them at all. The Fair Jilt was an ok story but the masterpiece is of this book is Oroonoko. A story about a Prince who is kidnapped and sold as a slave and eventually has to kill the love of his life, hi