Canterbury’s Aphra Behn (1640-1689): Literature’s best kept secret
Born on the edge of Canterbury in Harbledown in 1640, Aphra Johnson, the daughter of a barber and a woman serving as a wetnurse, was to become the first professional woman writer in English, Aphra Behn. As Aphra Behn, she became a spy and then a fantastically successful playwright, poet, translator, and fiction-writer, who was […]