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"No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea."
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Aphra BehnOh what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour! — Aphra Behn
"Oh what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!"
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Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn
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Aphra Behn was an English playwright, poet, prose writer and translator from the Restoration era. As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barriers and served as a literary role model for later generations of women authors. Rising from obscurity, she came to the notice of Charles II, who employed her as a spy in Antwerp. Upon her return to London and
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"She was employed by Charles II, in 1666, in a political negotiation at Antwerp, which she managed with much dexterity; but her intelligence (though well-founded) being disregarded, she renounced all state affairs, and amused herself some time with the gallantries of Antwerp; and, when she arrived at London, dedicated the rest of her life to pleasure and poetry."
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