{"product_id":"aphra-behn-a-secret-life-9781909572065","title":"Aphra Behn: A Secret Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe life, work and history of Aphra Behn: seventeenth -century dramatist, poet of the erotic and bisexual, novelist, political propagandist, spy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for the first hardback edition: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fascinating scholarship. Todd conveys Behn's vivacious character and the mores of the time.\" --the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ground-breaking--it reads quickly and lightly. Even Todd's throwaway lines are steeped in learning and observation.\" --Ruth Perry, MIT, \u003ci\u003eWomen's Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A major biography; of interest to everyone who cares about women as writers.\" --\u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fascinating, a page-turner and a delight, an astonishingly thorough book.\" --Emma Donoghue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"All women together ought to let flowers fall on the tomb of Aphra Behn. . . . For it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.\" --Virginia Woolf\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAphra Behn, a spy in the Netherlands and the Americas, was the first professional woman writer. The most prolific dramatist of her age, innovative novelist, translator, lyrical and erotic poet, she expresses a frank sexuality addressing impotence, orgasm and bisexuality, whilst serving as political propagandist for the monarch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis revised biography of the extraordinary, ground-breaking writer, who is emblematic of the Restoration period, a time of masks and self-fashioning, is set in conflict-ridden England, Europe, and in the mismanaged slave colonies, following the Puritan republic in 1660.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJanet Todd\u003c\/b\u003e, novelist and internationally renowned scholar, was President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and a Professor at Rutgers, NJ. An expert on women's writing and feminism, she has published on many writers, including Jane Austen, the Shelley Circle, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Aphra Behn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fentum Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/27\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781909572065\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 608\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/21\/2017\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Janet Todd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39463450411189,"sku":"9781909572065","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_bdbda93b-6132-4716-a5ba-861600d7235a.jpg?v=1615924165","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/aphra-behn-a-secret-life-9781909572065","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}