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==Biographies and writings based on her life== * {{cite book | title = The Passionate Shepherdess | first = Maureen | last = Duffy | year = 1977| author-link = Maureen Duffy }} The first wholly scholarly new biography of Behn; the first to identify Behn's birth name. * {{cite book |first=Angeline |last=Goreau |year=1980 |title=Reconstructing Aphra: a social biography of Aphra Behn |publisher=Dial Press |location=New York |isbn=0-8037-7478-8 |url=https://archive.org/details/reconstructingap0000gore }} * {{cite book |first=Angeline |last=Goreau |contribution=Aphra Behn: A scandal to modesty (c. 1640β1689) |editor=Spender, Dale |title=Feminist theorists: Three centuries of key women thinkers |url=https://archive.org/details/feministtheorist00spen |url-access=registration |publisher=Pantheon |year=1983 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/feministtheorist00spen/page/8 8β27] |isbn=0-394-53438-7 }} * {{cite book | title = The Theatre of Aphra Behn | first = Derek | last = Hughes | year = 2001 | publisher = Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=0-333-76030-1}} * {{cite book | title = The Secret Life of Aphra Behn | url = https://archive.org/details/secretlifeofaphr0000todd | url-access = registration | first = Janet | last = Todd | year = 1997 | publisher = Rutgers University Press |isbn=0-8135-2455-5| author-link = Janet Todd }} A comprehensively researched biography of Behn, with new material on her life as a spy. * Janet Todd, ''Aphra Behn: A Secret Life''. {{ISBN|978-1-909572-06-5}}, 2017 Fentum Press, revised edition * {{cite book | title = Aphra Behn β The Incomparable Astrea | url = https://archive.org/details/aphrabehnincompa0000sack | url-access = registration | first = Vita | last = Sackville-West | year = 1927 | publisher = Gerald Howe| author-link = Vita Sackville-West }} A view of Behn more sympathetic and laudatory than Woolf's. * {{cite book | title = A Room of One's Own | first = Virginia | last = Woolf | year = 1929 | title-link = A Room of One's Own | author-link = Virginia Woolf }} Only one section deals with Behn, but it served as a starting point for the feminist rediscovery of Behn's role. * {{cite web |last=Huntting|first=Nancy|url=http://www.aestheticrealism.net/aesnyc141/Aphra_Behn_NH.htm |title=What Is Triumph in Love? with a consideration of Aphra Behn }} * {{cite book | title = Slip-Shod Sibyls | first = Germaine | last = Greer | year = 1995 | title-link = Slip-Shod Sibyls | author-link = Germaine Greer }} Two chapters deal with Aphra Behn with emphasis on her character as a poet * {{cite book | title=Rereading Aphra Behn: History, Theory, and Criticism |first=Heidi |last=Hutner |publisher=University of Virginia Press |year=1993 |isbn=978-0-8139-1443-5 }} * {{cite book |last1=Hutchinson |first1=John |title=Men of Kent and Kentishmen |date=1892 |publisher=Cross & Jackman |location=Canterbury |pages=15β163 |edition=Subscription |chapter=[[s:Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Afra Behn|Afra Behn]]}} * Britland, Karen (2021). "Aphra Behn's First Marriage?". The Seventeenth Century, 36:1. 33β53. * Hilton, Lisa (2024). ''The Scandal of the Century''. Michael Joseph, 352 pp. * Marsh, Patricia (2024). ''Three Faces''. The Conrad Press. {{ISBN|978-1-916966-60-4}} A novel based on the known facts of Behn's life.
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