The Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious Mrs. Another story has Behn born to a couple named Cooper. One version of Behn's life tells that she was born to a barber named John Amis and his wife Amy she is occasionally referred to as Aphra Amis Behn.
This may be due to intentional obscuring on Behn's part.
Information regarding Behn's life is scant, especially regarding her early years. Life and work Versions of her early life Her best-known works are Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave, sometimes described as an early novel, and the play The Rover. 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.
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. During the turbulent political times of the Exclusion Crisis, she wrote an epilogue and prologue that brought her into legal trouble she thereafter devoted most of her writing to prose genres and translations. Behn wrote under the pastoral pseudonym Astrea. She belonged to a coterie of poets and famous libertines such as John Wilmot, Lord Rochester. Upon her return to London and a probable brief stay in debtors' prison, she began writing for the stage. Rising from obscurity, she came to the notice of Charles II, who employed her as a spy in Antwerp. 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. Aphra Behn ( / ˈ æ f r ə b ɛ n/ bapt. 14 December 1640 – 16 April 1689) was an English playwright, poet, prose writer and translator from the Restoration era.
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