{"product_id":"aphra-behn-a-secret-life","title":"Aphra Behn - A Secret Life","description":"The life, work and history of Aphra Behn: seventeenth ­century dramatist, poet, novelist, political propagandist, bisexual writer, and spy.Praise for the first hardback edition:“Fascinating scholarship. Todd conveys Behn's vivacious character and the mores of the time.” —the New York Times“Ground-breaking—it reads quickly and lightly. Even Todd’s throwaway lines are steeped in learning and observation.” —Ruth Perry, MIT, Women’s Review of Books“A major biography; of interest to everyone who cares about women as writers.” —Times Higher Education Supplement“Fascinating, a page-turner and a delight, an astonishingly thorough book.” —Emma Donoghue“All women together ought to let flowers fall on the tomb of Aphra Behn. . . . For it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.” —Virginia WoolfAphra Behn, a spy in the Netherlands and the Americas, was the first professional woman writer. The most prolific dramatist of her age, innovative novelist, translator, lyrical and erotic poet, she expresses a frank sexuality addressing impotence, orgasm and bisexuality, whilst serving as political propagandist for the monarch.This revised biography of the extraordinary, ground-breaking writer, who is emblematic of the Restoration period, a time of masks and self-fashioning, is set in conflict-ridden England, Europe, and in the mismanaged slave colonies, following the Puritan republic in 1660.Janet Todd, novelist and internationally renowned scholar, was President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and a Professor at Rutgers, NJ. An expert on women’s writing and feminism, she has published on many writers, including Jane Austen, the Shelley Circle, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Aphra Behn.","brand":"Thryft Singapore","offers":[{"title":"Like New","offer_id":40056008376401,"sku":"PR3317.Z5","price":9.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":40056008409169,"sku":"PR3317.Z5","price":7.92,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":40056008441937,"sku":"PR3317.Z5","price":6.34,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Well Read","offer_id":40056008474705,"sku":"PR3317.Z5","price":5.07,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0110\/0598\/4849\/files\/31945136.jpg?v=1717745680","url":"https:\/\/thryft.sbs\/products\/aphra-behn-a-secret-life","provider":"Thryft","version":"1.0","type":"link"}