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The Works of Aphra Behn (Complete in 6 Vols) Ltd Edition Montague Summers 1915
The Works of Aphra Behn (Complete in 6 Vols) Ltd Edition Montague Summers 1915
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The Works of Aphra Behn (Complete in 6 Volumes)
Edited by Montague Summers
Heinemann, London, 1915. Limited to 760 copies of which this is number 146. Complete in six volumes. Hardback, cloth, paper title labels. Frontis portrait of Aphra Behn to the first volume.
CONDITION
A very good complete set. All 6 books are in good clean condition. Two of the paper labels have small nicks. All contents present to all volumes and pages very good throughout, in fact many pages remain uncut at the top edge. No names or writing. Overall a good complete set.
Aphra Behn (14 December 1640 – 16 April 1689) was an English playwright, poet, prose writer and translator from the Restoration era. As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barriers and served as a literary role model for later generations of women authors. Rising from obscurity, she came to the notice of Charles II, who employed her as a spy in Antwerp. Upon her return to London and a probable brief stay in debtors' prison, she began writing for the stage. She belonged to a coterie of poets and famous libertines such as John Wilmot, Lord Rochester. Behn wrote under the pastoral pseudonym Astrea. During the turbulent political times of the Exclusion Crisis, she wrote an epilogue and prologue that brought her into legal trouble; she thereafter devoted most of her writing to prose genres and translations. A staunch supporter of the Stuart line, she declined an invitation from Bishop Burnet to write a welcoming poem to the new king William III. She died shortly after.
She is remembered in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own: "All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn which is, most scandalously but rather appropriately, in Westminster Abbey, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds." Her grave is not included in the Poets' Corner but lies in the East Cloister near the steps to the church.
Her best-known works are Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave, sometimes described as an early novel, and the play The Rover.
Edited by Montague Summers
Heinemann, London, 1915. Limited to 760 copies of which this is number 146. Complete in six volumes. Hardback, cloth, paper title labels. Frontis portrait of Aphra Behn to the first volume.
CONDITION
A very good complete set. All 6 books are in good clean condition. Two of the paper labels have small nicks. All contents present to all volumes and pages very good throughout, in fact many pages remain uncut at the top edge. No names or writing. Overall a good complete set.
Aphra Behn (14 December 1640 – 16 April 1689) was an English playwright, poet, prose writer and translator from the Restoration era. As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barriers and served as a literary role model for later generations of women authors. Rising from obscurity, she came to the notice of Charles II, who employed her as a spy in Antwerp. Upon her return to London and a probable brief stay in debtors' prison, she began writing for the stage. She belonged to a coterie of poets and famous libertines such as John Wilmot, Lord Rochester. Behn wrote under the pastoral pseudonym Astrea. During the turbulent political times of the Exclusion Crisis, she wrote an epilogue and prologue that brought her into legal trouble; she thereafter devoted most of her writing to prose genres and translations. A staunch supporter of the Stuart line, she declined an invitation from Bishop Burnet to write a welcoming poem to the new king William III. She died shortly after.
She is remembered in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own: "All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn which is, most scandalously but rather appropriately, in Westminster Abbey, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds." Her grave is not included in the Poets' Corner but lies in the East Cloister near the steps to the church.
Her best-known works are Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave, sometimes described as an early novel, and the play The Rover.
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