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Aphra Behn
British playwright, poet and spy (1640–1689)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 10 July 1640, 1640
- Died
- 16 April 1689, 1689
- Place of birth
- Canterbury
- Place of death
- London
- Sex or gender
- female
- Given name
- Aphra
- Family name
- Behn
- Genre
- epistolary fiction, romance
- Field of work
- poetry
- Occupation
- playwright, translator, poet, writer, novelist, women's rights activist
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of England
- Native language
- English
- birth name
- Aphra Johnson
- date of baptism
- 14 December 1640
- depicted by
- Portrait of Aphra Behn
- described by source
- Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Women Writers in Review, Men of Kent and Kentishmen, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Library of the World's Best Literature, Metzler Autorinnen Lexikon (1 ed.), A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- married name
- Aphra Johnson
- name in native language
- Aphra Behn
- notable work
- Oroonoko, The Forc'd Marriage, The Dutch Lover, Abdelazer, The Town Fop or, Sir Timothy Tawdry, The Rover, The Feign'd Curtizans, The City Heiress, The Luckey Chance, The Emperor of the Moon, The Widow Ranter, or, the History of Bacon in Virginia, The Younger Brother, or, The Amorous Jilt
- place of burial
- Westminster Abbey
- pseudonym
- Astrea
- topic's main category
- Category:Aphra Behn
- unmarried partner
- William Scott
- writing language
- English
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