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\nNational Archives: Best-known as the first professional female writer in England, Aphra Behn was a trailblazing thinker whose work explored themes of women’s rights, slavery and colonial oppression. In this film, Record Specialist Dr...\nNational Archives: Best-known as the first professional female writer in England, Aphra Behn was a trailblazing thinker whose work explored themes of women’s rights, slavery and colonial oppression. In this film, Record Specialist Dr Katy Mair, and Professor of 17th-Century Studies at Loughborough University, Elaine Hobby, tell us the less-well-known story of Aphra Behn the spy – a young woman who was recruited by Charles II and sent to the dangerous city of Antwerp to turn her rumoured former lover into a double agent.Literary Lives traces the footsteps, through the marks they left in our records, of some of our nation’s famous, and less famous, authors, spotlighting moments in their lives that have shaped them into the characters we know them to be today. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.\n
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2021
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English
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fiction, money, london, trust, female writers
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first female writer, aphra behn, english spies, english writers, female spy, english female spy, english female writer, 1660s england, 17th century england, 1600s england, english, petition, scott, king, charles, women, information, antwerp, employers, serve, country, turn, forced, service, paid, pardon, world, word, desperate, heard, lost, debts
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