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Aphra Behn NPG D9483

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Robert White, after John Riley

Details of Aphra Behn's early life are uncertain. She seems to have journeyed to South America in 1663-4 with her family. On her return to England she was briefly married to Mr Behn, and from 1667 she went to Antwerp as a spy for Charles II. The King failed to pay her and she was imprisoned for debt. Turning to writing to support herself, she wrote at least 19 plays, as well as poetry and, at the end of her life, prose fiction. She... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.