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&gt; **Aphra Behn** (/��圩r�� b�𣌟/; 14 December 1640? �� 16 April 1689) was a British
&gt; playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer from the Restoration era. As
&gt; one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke
&gt; cultural barriers and served as a literary role model for later generations
&gt; of women authors. Rising from obscurity, she came to the notice of Charles
&gt; II, who employed her as a spy in Antwerp. Upon her return to London and a
&gt; probable brief stay in debtors' prison, she began writing for the stage. She
&gt; belonged to a coterie of poets and famous libertines such as John Wilmot,
&gt; Lord Rochester. She wrote under the pastoral pseudonym Astrea. During the
&gt; turbulent political times of the Exclusion Crisis, she wrote an epilogue
&gt; and prologue that brought her into legal trouble; she thereafter devoted
&gt; most of her writing to prose genres and translations. A staunch supporter
&gt; of the Stuart line, she declined an invitation from Bishop Burnet to write
&gt; a welcoming poem to the new king William III. She died shortly after.
&gt; 
&gt; She is famously remembered in Virginia Woolf's *A Room of One's Own*: "All
&gt; women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn which
&gt; is, most scandalously but rather appropriately, in Westminster Abbey, for
&gt; it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds." Her grave
&gt; is not included in the Poets' Corner but lies in the East Cloister near
&gt; the steps to the church.
&gt;
&gt; *Aphra Behn* - [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphra_Behn)
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