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Women's Literature 17 Aphra Behn: Who was she? 53 Views


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Thank you We sneak After ben who was she Ah

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la shmoop In order to make it as a woman

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writer in these days you had to have a lot

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of spunk only the strong survive And you could tell

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that after been had that in states because he travelled

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she lived in suriname and then she does a spy

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And then she wrote that stuff into her picture So

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she has a very political life She has his marriage

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and then her husband dies Leaves her in debt She

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ends up spending years in a woman's debtor prison Really

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a hard boiled character and then she's she's associate with

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the tory but she's a very staunch royalist janine she

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supports the royal line and specifically the stuart line In

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her case this was like during right the the glorious

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revolution The glorious revolution happened when she was very young

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So there was a moment when like the people took

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power back and then eventually they were like never mind

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we'll take the king again So she kind of came

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of age at the time when like the royalists were

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just coming back into power and she always kind of

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was a fan of that Where did then get her

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writing material from during which major revolution did ben grow

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up What english political group was been a part of

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I think every great writer has been us by or 00:01:28.046 --> [endTime] maybe not

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