This week, we take a look at the life of groundbreaking 17th century writer Aphra Behn. Hidden in the East Cloister of Westminster Abbey is a gravestone every woman should read. It carries the ...

With the Queen in Canterbury today to unveil a statue of Aphra Behn, here we look at the life and times of the pioneering female author - who is finally getting the recognition she deserves… Born to a ...

The poet, writer and dramatist Aphra (Astrea or Aphara) Behn (1640?-1689) was buried in the east cloister of Westminster Abbey, near the steps up into the church. Thomas Sprat was Dean of Westminster ...

Queen Camilla has visited Kent to unveil a statue of Aphra Behn, the first woman to earn a wage as a professional writer. The Queen revealed the statue on Tuesday outside The Beaney House of Art ...

Queen Camilla is to visit Kent to unveil a statue of Aphra Behn, the first woman to earn a wage as a professional writer. The Queen will reveal the statue on Tuesday outside The Beaney House of ...

Free Thinking - Aphra Behn. 1066 and the South Coast ... by the great Bengali poet and Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore. Novelist Tahmima Anam and New Generation Thinker Preti Taneja, from ...

Playwright, poet, spy. Anne McElvoy discusses Aphra Behn with Professor Elaine Hobby and director Loveday Ingram who has given Behn's play The Rover a South American carnival setting at the RSC.

Camilla revealed the addition to her canine family when she met a fellow dog lover in Canterbury at an event celebrating the life of the city's famous literary heroine Aphra Behn. The 17th century ...

With the Queen in Canterbury today to unveil a statue of Aphra Behn, here we look at the life and times of the pioneering female author - who is finally getting the recognition she deserves ...