Aphra Behn
Portrait by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-127791) (cropped)

Aphra Behn

Author of Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave

Also known as: Aphra Ben, Behn Aphra, Alpha Behn, aphra benn, Mrs. Aphra Behn, Aphra Behn~Janet Todd ... (see complete list), Aphra; Todd, Janet M. Behn

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Aphra Behn was one of the first English women to make a living as a writer. She was a popular and prolific Restoration playwright and poet (her pen name was Astrea). She also worked as a spy for King Charles II. Virginia Woolf wrote, "All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, which is, most scandalously but rather appropriately, in Westminster Abbey, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds. It is she -- shady and amorous as she was -- who makes it not quite fantastic for me to say to you tonight: Earn five hundred a year by your wits."
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