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When Mary Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" was published in 1792, a modern female consciousness came into being--one that tied the mind to the body. In this first new study of Wollstonecraft in 30 years, Todd tells the mother of feminism's story in a biography that reads like ... More

This book sets Behn firmly in an historical context of political factions, theatre developments and colonial encounters. Her work is remarkably diverse. There are chapters on each of the genres in which she wrote: drama, fiction, poetry and translation, and on other aspects of her life, from her pub... More

Must-have guides designed to introduce students and teachers to key topics and authors. Jane Austen is unique among British novelists in maintaining her popular appeal while receiving more scholarly attention now than ever before. This innovative introduction by a leading scholar and editor of her w... More

Aphra Behn (1640?-1689) lived and died with the Restoration, with whose licence and liberty she became synonymous. The first woman to earn her living from writing, she composed at least nineteen plays, fiction, poetry and translations, and travelled as a spy to Holland and possibly to Surinam in Sou... More

Traditionally known as the first professional woman writer in English, Aphra Behn (1640-1689) has now emerged as one of the major figures of the Restoration, providing more plays for the stage than any other author and greatly influencing the development of the novel. Behn's work straddles the genre... More

When Prince Oroonokoas passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonokoas noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but his struggle for freedom brings about his... More

‘We are bought and sold like apes or monkeys, to be the sport of women, fools, and cowards, and the support of rogues’ When Prince Oroonoko’s passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to t... More