Rereading Aphra Behn: History, Theory, and Criticism.

The Women's Review of Books | July 1, 1994| | Copyright

WHEN VIRGINIA WOOLF WROTE in A Room of One's Own that "all women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn," her rallying cry did not go unanswered. A half-century later, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, feminist critics, scholars and biographers began to drop those flowers with a vengeance. For many who work on early British women writers, Aphra Behn (1640-1689) became the newly-sung hero, the urfeminist, the putative first professional woman of letters in Britain who would serve as a formidable starting point for the feminist revision of British ...

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