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Margaret Anne Doody, 22 April 1993
The Works of Aphra Behn. Vol. I: Poetry
edited by Janet Todd.
Pickering & Chatto, 481 pp., £55, September 1992,1 85196 012 0 Show More
edited by Janet Todd.
Pickering & Chatto, 481 pp., £55, September 1992,
Oroonoko, The Rover and Other Works
by Aphra Behn, edited by Janet Todd.
Penguin, 385 pp., £6.99, November 1992,0 14 043338 4 Show More
by Aphra Behn, edited by Janet Todd.
Penguin, 385 pp., £6.99, November 1992,
“... to give respectability to a young woman living on her wits. Behn genuinely served as a spy for Charles II in Antwerp, and discovered the hard way that the government was very reluctant to pay its employees. (Like other gentlemen of Behn’s acquaintance, Charles was better at promise than performance.) Behn then managed ... ”