Fill in the Blanks Aphra Behn's lifeOnline version A fill-in-the-gaps activity to review the most important information on Aphra's life, focusing on words used in the prep lesson. by ELISA GALLINARO 1 buried sympathyse spy theatre pain John epistolary novelist male 1640 actresses 'Ooronoko' inspiration popular debts sexual Her birth name was Aphra . She was born in Canterbury in . She worked as a in the Netherlands for King Charles II . As the king didn't pay her regularly , she was imprisoned for . She then started to work as a playwright , writing pieces for the , She produced many plays and most of them were extremely successful . Her most successful play was The Rover ( 1677 ) . She was criticized because her plays contained themes ; at the time women should not talk nor write about immoral themes . Women who worked in theatres ( writers or ) were seen as 'corrupted' women . Aphra Behn didn't pay attention to those critics and kept on writing . She was also the first female writer who didn't want to use a penname : she claimed her right to work as a writer for a living . Aphra Behn awas also a poet and a . She wrote 'Love Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister' ( 1684 ) which is one of the fist examples of novel . This novel was extremely and Behn wrote two more sequels of it . In 1688 Behn published her most famous work , the novel , the story of a noble slave and his tragic love . ìOoronoko' was the first work ever to with slaves . Behn may have taken from her experience in Suriname . Her last years were characterized dy : she suffered from rheumatoid arthritis . She died in 1689 and she was in the Westinster Abbey , in the Poets' Corner .