{"product_id":"secret-life-of-aphra-behn-book-janet-todd-9780813524559","title":"The Secret Life of Aphra Behn","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\u003eFascinating 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\u003eGround-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\u003eA major biography; of interest to everyone who cares about women as writers. --\u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFascinating, a page-turner and a delight, an astonishingly thorough book. --Emma Donoghue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll 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","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49726573510929,"sku":"CIN0813524555G","price":29.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0813524555.jpg?v=1750979639","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/secret-life-of-aphra-behn-book-janet-todd-9780813524559","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}