Aphra Behn

阿芙拉·贝恩（英语：Aphra Behn，1640年12月14日—1689年4月16日），英国复辟时期的女性剧作家、诗人、散文作家和翻译家。她是英国首批以写作谋生的女性之一，打破了文化障碍，成为后世女作家的文学榜样。她从默默无闻中崛起，引起了英王查理二世的注意，并派她到安特卫普当间谍。返回伦敦后，因债务问题短暂被关进监狱，在那里她开始为舞台写作。

她最著名的作品是《奥鲁诺克：皇家奴隶》（时被描述为一部早期小说）和戏剧《流浪者》。

伸延阅读

Todd, Janet. The Works of Aphra Behn. 7 vols. Ohio State University Press, 1992–1996. (Currently most up-to-date edition of her collected works)

O'Donnell, Mary Ann. Aphra Behn: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. 2nd Edition. Ashgate, 2004.

Spencer, Jane. Aphra Behn's Afterlife. Oxford University Press. 2000.

Aphra Behn Online: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830 （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）. e-journal sponsored by the Aphra Behn Society and the University of South Florida. 2011–

Hobby, Elaine. Virtue of necessity: English women's writing 1649–88. University of Michigan 1989.

Lewcock, Dawn. Aphra Behn studies: More for seeing than hearing: Behn and the use of theatre. Ed. Todd, Janet. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.

Brockhaus, Cathrin, Aphra Behn und ihre Londoner Komödien: Die Dramatikerin und ihr Werk im England des ausgehenden 17. Jahrhunderts, 1998.

Todd, Janet. The critical fortunes of Aphra Behn. Columbia, SC: Camden House. 1998: 69–72. ISBN 978-1571131652.

Owens, W. R. Shakespeare, Aphra Behn, and the canon. New York: Routledge in association with the Open University. 1996. ISBN 978-0415135757.

Chisholm, Hugh (编). Behn, Aphra. Encyclopædia Britannica 3 (第11版). London: Cambridge University Press. 1911.

Gosse, Edmund. Behn, Afra. Stephen, Leslie (编). Dictionary of National Biography 4. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885.