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Astrea in the 1690s Astrea in the 1690s
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The Early Eighteenth Century The Early Eighteenth Century
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Anne Finch and ‘The Circuit of Apollo’ Anne Finch and ‘The Circuit of Apollo’
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Susanna Centlivre, Delarivier Manley, and Eliza Haywood Susanna Centlivre, Delarivier Manley, and Eliza Haywood
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Jane Barker, Aphra Behn, and the writing nun Jane Barker, Aphra Behn, and the writing nun
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The Later Eighteenth Century The Later Eighteenth Century
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Hannah Cowley’s School for Greybeards Hannah Cowley’s School for Greybeards
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4 Her Wit, without Her Shame: Women Writing after Behn
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Published:November 2000
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Abstract
The evidence of 18th-century women's literary history shows many different ways of responding to Aphra Behn. This chapter has divided consideration of Behn's effect on her female successors into three sections. The first deals with the 1690s, when the recently deceased Astrea is an inescapable point of reference. In the second, the chapter focuses on the relations between Behn and a number of individual writers in the first half of the 18th century, arguing that for Susanna Centlivre and Delarivier Manley, Behn was most significant as a role-model for professional writing, while Jane Barker is influenced in a more complex and troubled way by Behn's work. The third section considers women writers' use of Behn in the later 18th century. Historical distance and an established female writing role allowed for a new detachment in the attitudes of women writers to her, but Hannah Cowley's adaptation from Behn showed that she could still be a significant influence.
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