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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 .