Goreau, Angeline

Reconstructing Aphra: A Social Biography of Aphra Behn

New York: The Dial Press, 1980. First Edition. First Printing. 339, illus., notes, bibliography, index, red stamp on bottom edge, some wear, soiling, and sticker residue to DJ. Three hundred years ago Aphra Behn became the first woman in England to earn her living by the pen, at a time when few women writers even dared to publish under their own names. Condition: very good, good.

Keywords: Nell Gwyn, Surinam, Oroonoko, Spy, Espionage, Thomas Orway, Feminism, John Dryden, Aphra Behn

ISBN: 0803774788

[Book #42388]

Price: $31.50