As the career of the pioneering writer is remembered, an 1688 copy of her novel Oroonoko is the cherry on the cake The striking name of the playwright and novelist Aphra Behn, pioneering queen of English literature, remains largely unrecognised outside academia and the theatre. But this summer, almost 400 years after her birth, Behn's talents are being celebrated, and especially in her home town of Canterbury. Her ex…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AM on July 21, 2024