2. Aphra Behn
Born : 14 December,1640
Died : 16 April,1689
Occupation : Playwright,Poet, Prose
writer, Translator
Literary movement : Restoration
literature, Restoration Comedy
3. Life & career :-
● As one of the first English women to earn her living by her
writing, she broke cultural barriers and served as a literary
role model for later generations of women authors.
● she came to the notice of Charles II, who employed her as a
spy in Antwerp.
● she began writing for the stage.
● Behn wrote under the pastoral pseudonym Astrea.
4. ● She is remembered in Virginia Woolf's A Room
of One's Own.
● A staunch supporter of the Stuart line, Behn
declined an invitation from Bishop Burnet to
write a welcoming poem to the new king
William III.
● She died shortly after.
