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Aphra Behn

1640 - 1689

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Aphra Behn (; bapt. 14 December 1640 – 16 April 1689) was an English playwright, poet, prose writer and translator from the Restoration era. As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barriers and served as a literary role model for later generations of women authors. Rising from obscurity, she came to the notice of Charles II, who employed her as a spy in Antwerp. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aphra Behn is the 1,769th most popular writer (up from 2,129th in 2019), the 1,590th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,603rd in 2019) and the 169th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Aphra Behn ranks 1,769 out of 7,302. Before her are Baba Tahir, Shūsaku Endō, Junji Ito, Dominique Venner, Marie Under, and R. L. Stine. After her are François Coppée, Menander Protector, Francis Jammes, Raymond Roussel, Fulcanelli, and Lady Randolph Churchill.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1640, Aphra Behn ranks 9. Before her are Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan, Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, Pu Songling, La Voisin, and Gaspar Sanz. After her are Antoine Coysevox, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, Yohannes I, Philippe de La Hire, Abraham Mignon, and Jacques Ozanam. Among people deceased in 1689, Aphra Behn ranks 7. Before her are Christina, Queen of Sweden, Pope Innocent XI, Marie Louise d’Orléans, Sambhaji, Khushal Khattak, and Aşub Sultan. After her are Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria, Ernest Günther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Pjetër Bogdani, Kazimierz Łyszczyński, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, and Thomas Sydenham.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Aphra Behn ranks 1,590 out of 8,785. Before her are Thomas Gresham (1519), Bill Ward (1948), Ian Rush (1961), Dave Gahan (1962), Frederick Abel (1827), and John Gould (1804). After her are Antony Flew (1923), Rishi Sunak (1980), Simon Le Bon (1958), William Burges (1827), David Trimble (1944), and Denis Thatcher (1915).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Aphra Behn ranks 169. Before her are Karen Armstrong (1944), Robert Harris (1957), Eleanor Hibbert (1906), Frederic W. H. Myers (1843), Edward Lear (1812), and Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838). After her are Colin Dexter (1930), Ted Hughes (1930), Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837), Peter Shaffer (1926), Anthony Trollope (1815), and Lucinda Riley (1965).

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