Shee Spy
Michael Dobson, 8 May 1997
The Secret Life of Aphra Behn
by Janet Todd.
Deutsch, 545 pp., £25, October 1996,0 233 98991 9 Show More
by Janet Todd.
Deutsch, 545 pp., £25, October 1996,
“... called Colonel Colepeper, we can be fairly confident that Behn was the daughter of a Canterbury barber called Johnson, born on 14 December 1640 and christened Eaffrey. From here onwards, though, things get difficult. When we next hear of her, Eaffrey/Aphra is in her mid-twenties and calling herself Mrs Behn, though of Mr Behn we have only a report in the ... ”