The First English Woman to Make a Living as a Writer Was Also a Spy

Aphra Behn was the first English woman to earn her living solely by her pen. The most prolific dramatist of her time, she was also an innovative writer of fiction and a translator of science and French romance. The novelist Virginia Woolf wrote, “All women together ought to let flowers fall on the tomb of … Continue reading The First English Woman to Make a Living as a Writer Was Also a Spy