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All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me.... If I must not, because of my sex, have this freedom... I lay down my quill and you shall hear no more of me.

Aphra Behn

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Aphra Behn
Age: 49 †
Born: 1640
Born: January 1
Died: 1689
Died: April 16
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Kent
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Afra Behn
Aphra Johnson
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