Aphra Behn (Reprise) - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 159

2020-10-17

Aphra Behn (Reprise) The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 159 with Heather Rose Jones This episode is about the 17th century novelist, playwright, and spy Aphra Behn. In this episode we talk about: Behn’s careers in espionage and literature Her bisexuality and some of the complexities of how desire between women was portrayed in the 17th century Poem: VERSES design'd by Mrs. A. Behn, to be sent to a fair Lady, that desir'd she would absent her?self, to cure her Love. Left unfinish'd Poem: The Dream Poem: To the Fair C...

Aphra Behn (Reprise) The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 159 with Heather Rose Jones

This episode is about the 17th century novelist, playwright, and spy Aphra Behn.

In this episode we talk about:

Behn’s careers in espionage and literature
Her bisexuality and some of the complexities of how desire between women was portrayed in the 17th century
Poem: VERSES design'd by Mrs. A. Behn, to be sent to a fair Lady, that desir'd she would absent her?self, to cure her Love. Left unfinish'd
Poem: The Dream
Poem: To the Fair Clarinda Who made love to me, Imagin'd more than woman
Dedicatory text to Hortense Mancini, Duchesse Mazarine

Books mentioned:

Todd, Janet. 1996. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers Univ Press, New Brunswick. ISBN 0-8135-2455-5
If you’d like to read some historical fiction that includes an entirely imagined meeting between Aphra and Hortense Mancini: ”The Mazarinette and the Musketeer” by Heather Rose Jones

This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: