Aphra Behn

Aphra Behn flourished in the cosmopolitan world of the London playhouse and the court. It was she, Virginia Woolf wrote, "who earned [women] the right to speak their minds."

Aphra Behn

Aphra Behn flourished in the cosmopolitan world of the London playhouse and the court. It was she, Virginia Woolf wrote, "who earned [women] the right to speak their minds."

Books by Aphra Behn

  • Oroonoko: A Norton Critical Edition

    Aphra Behn, Joanna Lipking

    First Edition, Paperback, 1997

    This long-awaited Norton Critical Edition of Aphra Behn’s best-known and most influential work makes available the original 1688 text, the only text published in her lifetime.
  • Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave

    Aphra Behn, Lore Metzger

    Paperback, 1997

    An influential seventeenth-century fable, by a pathbreaking woman writer, about the fall of a black prince.