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Project Description / Intro / Behn

Behn, Aphra (1640-1689)
English dramatist, novelist, and poet, Aphra Behn was the first Englishwoman known to earn her living by writing.
Select Texts:
  • The amorous prince, or, The curious husband a comedy, 1671.
  • The forc'd marriage, or, The jealous bridegroom, 1671.
  • The Dutch lover, 1673.
  • The debauchee, or, The credulous cuckold, 1677.
  • Abdelazer, or, The Moor's revenge, 1677.
  • The rover, or, The banish't cavaliers, 1677
  • The town-fopp, or, Sir Timothy Tawdrey, 1677.
  • The lives of sundry notorious villains, memorable for their base and abominable actions, 1678
  • Sir Patient Fancy, 1678.
  • The feign'd curtizans, or, A nights intrigue, 1679.
  • The second part of The rover, 1681.
  • A prologue to her new play called Like father, like son, or, The mistaken brother, 1682.
  • Prologue to Romulus, 1682.
  • The Roundheads, or, The good old cause, 1682.
  • The false count, or, A new way to play an old game, 1682.
  • The city-heiress, or, Sir Timothy Treat-all, 1682.
  • The young king, or, The mistake, 1683.
  • Poems upon several occasions, 1684.
  • Love-letters between a noble-man and his sister, 1684.
  • A pindarick on the death of our late sovereign, 1685.
  • A pindarick poem on the happy coronation of His Most Sacred Majesty James II and his illustrious consort Queen Mary, 1685.
  • A poem humbly dedicated to the great pattern of piety and virtue, Catherine, Queen Dowager, on the death of her dear lord and husband, King Charles II, 1685.
  • The luckey chance, or, An alderman's bargain, 1687.
  • The emperor of the moon, 1687.
  • A congratulatory poem to the King's Most Sacred Majesty, on the happy birth of the Prince of Wales, 1688.
  • Oroonoko, or, The royal slave, 1688.
  • Three histories, 1688
  • The fair jilt, or, The history of Prince Tarquin and Miranda, 1688.
  • The history of the nun, or, The fair vow-breaker, 1689.
  • A congratulatory poem to Her Sacred Majesty, Queen Mary upon her arrival in England, 1689.
  • The widdow Ranter, or, The history of Bacon in Virginia, 1690
  • The histories and novels of the late ingenious Mrs Behn, 1696.
  • The younger brother, or, The amorous jilt, 1696.
  • The false count, or, A new way to play an old game, 1697.
  • The lady's looking-glass, to dress herself by, or, The whole art of charming, 1697.
  • The unfortunate bride, or, The blind lady a beauty, 1698.
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