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See also:BEHN, APHRA (otherwise AFRA, APHARA or AYFARA) (164o-1689) , See also:British dramatist and novelist, was baptized at Wye, See also:Kent, in 164o. Her See also:father, See also:John See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson, was a See also:barber. While still a See also:child she was taken out to Surinam, then an See also:English See also:possession, from which she returned to See also:England in 1658, when it was handed over to the Dutch. In Surinam Aphra learned the See also:history, and acquired a See also:personal knowledge of the See also:African See also:prince Oroonoko and his beloved Irnoinda, whose adventures she has related in her novel, Oroonoko. On her return she married Mr Behn, a See also:London See also:merchant of Dutch extraction. The wit and abilities of Mrs Behn brought her into high estimation at See also:court, and—her See also:husband having died by this time—Charles II. employed her on See also:secret service in the See also:Netherlands during the Dutch See also:war. At See also:Antwerp she successfully accomplished the See also:objects of her See also:mission; and in the latter end of 1666 she wormed out of one See also:Van der Aalhert the See also:design formed by De Ruyter, in See also:con-junction with the DeWitts, of sailing up the See also:Thames and burning the English See also:ships in their harbours. This she communicated to the English court, but although the event proved her intelligence to have been well founded, it was at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time disregarded. Disgusted with See also:political service, she returned to England, and from this See also:period she appears to have supported herself by her writings. Among her numerous plays are The Forced See also:Marriage, or the Jealous Bridegroom (1671); The Amorous Prince (1671); The See also:Town Fop (1677) and The Rover, or the Banished See also:Cavalier (in two parts, 1677 and 1681); and The Roundheads (1682). The coarseness that disfigures her plays was the See also:fault of her time; she possessed See also:great ingenuity, and showed an admirable comprehension of See also:stage business, while her wit and vivacity were un-' failing. Of her See also:short tales, or novelettes, the best is the See also:story of Oroonoko, which was made the basis of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Southerne's popular tragedy. Mrs Behn died on the 16th of See also:April 1689, and was buried in the cloisters of See also:Westminster See also:Abbey.
See Plays written by the See also:Late Ingenious Mrs Behn (1702; re-
Eiinted, 1871); also "Aphra Behn's Gedichte and Prosawerke," by P. Siegel in Anglia (See also:Halle, vol. See also:xxv., 1902, pp. 86-128,329-385) ; and A. C. See also:Swinburne's See also:essay on " Social See also:Verse " in Studies in See also:Prose and See also:Poetry (1894).
End of Article: BEHN, APHRA (otherwise AFRA, APHARA or AYFARA) (164o-1689)
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