Aphra Behn was an English novelist, dramatist, and poet born in 1640 in Kent, England. She served as a spy for King Charles II in Belgium in the 1660s. By 1670, she had her first play produced, making her one of the first professional female writers in England. Over her career, she wrote 16 plays, novels including Oroonoko, and various poems. Considered an important figure of the Restoration period, Aphra Behn died in 1689 in London at the age of 48.

1. By
 Prof.R.R.Borse,
 Asst.Prof. & Head,
 B.P. ARTS, S.M.A.Science & K.K.C.Commerce
 College, Chalisgaon
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3. APHRA BEHN :
Birth : 14 december 1640.
Born : circa in Kent, England
Died ` : 16 April 1689 (48).
NATIONALITY : English.
Occupation : novelist,dramatist,poet.

4.  Plays: 16
1. The Amorous Prince (1671)
2. The Dutch Lover (1673)
3. Abdelazer (1676)
4. The Town Fop (1676)
5. The Rover, Part 1 (1677) and Part 2 (1681)
6. Sir Patient Fancy (1678)
7. The Feigned Courtesans (1679)
8. The Young King (1679)
9. The False Count (1681)
10. The Roundheads (1681)
11. The City Heiress (1682)
12. The Forc'd Marriage (1670)
13. Like Father, Like Son (1682)
14. Prologue and Epilogue to Romulus and Hersilia, or The Sabine War (November
1682)
15. The Luckey Chance, or an Alderman's Bargain (1686) with composer John Blow
16. The Emperor of the Moon (1687)

5.  The Fair Jilt
 Agnes de Castro
 Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His
Sister, in three parts (1682-1687)
 Oroonoko (1688)

6.  Poems upon Several Occasions, with A
Voyage to the Island of Love (1684) [6]
 Lycidus; or, The Lover in Fashion (1688)[6]

7.  Name at birth: Aphra Johnson
 In the 1660s, Aphra Behn served as a spy in
Belgium for King Charles II, who had just
gained the throne of England after the rule of
the Cromwells. By 1670 her first play was
produced, The Forced Marriage, the first in a
string of successful plays. During the
remainder of her life she wrote plays, poems
and novels, and is considered one of the first
women professional writers in the English
language.

8.  In 1688,than year before her death,behn
published “oroonoko” or the royal oroonoko
the story of the enslaved oroonoko and his
love ‘Imoinda’. This Novel is selected for our
syllabus.
 aphra behn,a great and welknown novelist
,dramatist and poet of restoration period died
london,kingdom of england.