![]() ![]() ![]() for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds. Aphra Behn: The Comedies Kate Aughterson Aphra Behn: The Comedies ANALYSING TEXTS General Editor: Nicholas Marsh Pu. Behn's work paved the way for women writers who came after her, as Virginia Woolf noted in a Room of One's Own (1928): "All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn. The work was an instant success and was adapted for the stage in 1695 (and more recently by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1999). Oroonoko is a novel by Aphra Behn, published in 1688, concerning the love of its hero, an enslaved African in Surinam in the 1660s, and the authors own. ![]() ![]() 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. Download cover art Download CD case insert Oroonoko, or The Royal SlaveĪphra 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. ![]()
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