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Aphra Behn

Virginia Woolf wrote in A Room of One's Own, "All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds." Indeed, Aphra Behn, who

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by Aphra Behn (1640–89)

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A Pox of the Statesman that's witty,

Who watches and Plots all the Sleepless Night:

For Seditious Harangues, to the Whiggs of the City;

And Maliciously turns a Traytor in Spight.

Let him Wear and Torment his lean Carrion:

To bring his Sham-Plots about,

Till at last King Bishop and Barron,

For the Publick Good he have quite rooted out.

But we that are no Polliticians ,

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