English Literature / Unit 10 ENL 0915 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Women Writers After 1660
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The idea
After sixteen sixty more women published. Katherine Philips, "the Matchless Orinda," wrote on female friendship and became a model for later women writers. Behn wrote for a living, and Virginia Woolf later urged women to "let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn."
In practice
Orinda, Behn, and Woolf's tribute.
Where people slip
Philips and Behn stand for two kinds of authorship.
Your place on the trail
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