Public Lecture: Editing Aphra Behn’s Fiction
- 20 June 2023
- 11am-3pm
- International House
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) is famous in literary and dramatic circles as the first professional female English writer: a highly successful playwright in the 1670s and 1680s, she was also a prominent poet, fiction-writer, and translator from French.
This symposium, an assemblage of those who are editing Behn’s fiction for Cambridge University Press, is designed to introduce her extraordinary achievements to a wider public.
Short talks on each of Behn’s stories – which include the first fiction about an uprising of enslaved people, and two tales of former nuns who marry and murder – will be interwoven with discussion of how computational methods can establish which works are really hers, and who the book-trade personnel were who brought her to her public.
Contact and booking details
- Name
- Kieran Teasdale
- Email address
- ias@lboro.ac.uk
- Cost
- Free
- Booking required?
- Yes