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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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- 00:23
she lived in suriname and then she does a spy
- 00:27
And then she wrote that stuff into her picture So
- 00:31
she has a very political life She has his marriage
- 00:33
and then her husband dies Leaves her in debt She
- 00:36
ends up spending years in a woman's debtor prison Really
- 00:40
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
- 00:50
her case this was like during right the the glorious
- 00:53
revolution The glorious revolution happened when she was very young
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So there was a moment when like the people took
- 00:59
power back and then eventually they were like never mind
- 01:02
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
- 01:07
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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