This lady was quite remarkable. Apart from being a writer, she was a campaigner for women’s rights, but not the usual suffrage we hear about in our history lessons at school. She was instrumental in her fight to get divorce and child custody law through parliament.

You may never have heard of Aphra Behn but she was an extremely popular and highly regarded English playwright and novelist in the mid 17th century. In fact, she is regarded to be the first “professional” woman writer of English literature. But Aphra was more than just a writer – she had an incredibly interesting and fascinating life.

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