![]() ![]() She began writing to pay her debts, in the end producing from 15 to 20 plays that enjoyed notable success on the London stage. Returning penniless to London and having failed to persuade the government to reimburse her for the money she had spent on gathering intelligence, she seems to have served some time in debtors’ prison. ![]() Later in that same decade, she acted as a spy in the Netherlands on behalf of the newly restored King Charles II. In the 1660s she may (as she claims in Oroonoko) have traveled to Surinam, a British plantation colony on the Atlantic coast of South America. She is believed to have been born Aphra Johnson in a small town near Canterbury, England, in July 1640. ![]() Little is known about the enigmatic Aphra Behn other than the fact that she was the first Englishwoman to write professionally. Captured after leading a slave revolt, he nobly endures torture and mutilation before being executed.Įvents in History at the Time of the Novel Oroonoko, a young African prince, is enslaved and transported from West Africa to an English plantation in Surinam. ![]() Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave: A True HistoryĪ short novel set in Africa and South America in 1663-64 published in London in 1688. ![]()
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