Aphra Behn: Love-Letters between a Nobleman and His Sister, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Blurb

Part 1

Part one is a story of coming of age for a young woman, Silvia. It's about how Philander, her brother-in-law seduces her. More like wears her down.

Part 2 Silvia's and Philander elope. In order to escape from an arranged marriage to Brilljard, Younge Silvia disguises herself as a man. She elopes to Holland with Philander. But things do not go as planned, and it's not a happily ever after ending for them. They meet Octavio who becomes very good friends with Silivia though at the time he does not know she is a woman. Yet he still falls in love with her and the story get messy. Plenty of love triangle action, gossip, lies and manipulations.

Cheating, close call rape, and so on . . . (The Reader "Love knows no baundries")

About the author: Aphra Behn (14 December 1640 - 16 April 1689) 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 a probable brief stay in debtors' prison, she began writing for the stage. She belonged to a coterie of poets and famous libertines such as John Wilmot, Lord Rochester. Behn wrote under the pastoral pseudonym Astrea. During the turbulent political times of the Exclusion Crisis, she wrote an epilogue and prologue that brought her legal trouble; she thereafter devoted most of her writing to prose genres and translations. A staunch supporter of the Stuart line, Behn declined an invitation from Bishop Burnet to write a welcoming poem to the new king William III. She died shortly after.

She is remembered in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own: "All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn which is, most scandalously but rather appropriately, in Westminster Abbey, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds." Her grave is not included in the Poets' Corner but lies in the East Cloister near the steps to the church.

Her best-known works are Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave, sometimes described as an early novel, and the play The Rover. (wikipedia. org)