Aphra Behn was a prolific and well established writer but facts about her remain scant and difficult to confirm.
There are claims she was a spy, that she trav.
Obviously a time of much division and difficulty as the King and Parliament, and their respective forces, came ever closer to conflict.
Aphra was born into the rising tensions to the English Civil War.
What can safely be said though is that Aphra Behn is now regarded as a key English playwright and a major figure in Restoration theatre.
Aphra Behn was a prolific and well established writer but facts about her remain scant and difficult to confirm