Aphra Behn
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Aphra Behn was an English playwright, poet, prose writer and translator from the Restoration era. As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barriers and s
Thomas Southerne
…was a huge success and resulted in him being established as a tragic dramatist. By 1688, "his subject once again ends up in a novel by his colleague Aphra Behn,Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave was performed as a play and was a huge success". According to Kaufman, "At the age of sixty-seven Southerne offers one…
Portrait by Sir Peter Lely, c. 1670
A sketch of Aphra Behn by George Scharf from a portrait believed to be lost (1873)
Portrait by Mary Beale
Title page of the first edition of Oroonoko (1688)