Aphra Behn may be best known for her plays, but she also wrote some fascinating poetry – and not all of it as risqué as her reputation suggests. On 18 November 2023, Professor Elaine Hobby and Dr Astrid Stilma led a workshop on Behn’s intriguing poem ‘A Paraphrase upon the Lord’s Prayer’, first published in […]
A fantastic visit back to Canterbury and the Beaney House of Art and Knowledge to spend the day researching inspirational Kent women through the ages. Led by digital humanities expert Dr Catriona Cooper and facilitator and content curator Helen Crutcher, the group took the life of Aphra Behn, plus a guided tour of the Beaney's […]
Aphra Behn wine, made by Kentish vineyard Barsole, features at the Canterbury Wine Festival, Westgate Hall.
The popular series of readings of plays by Canterbury playwrights continues with Behn’s delightfully frank political and social satire.
This exhibition celebrates the startling achievements of this daughter of London stage every season for over 50 years and a novella, Oroonoko, the first fiction in English to centre on a rebellion of enslaved Africans.
Join The Canterbury Players as they bring to life their own adaptation of Aphra’s radical, shocking, political and sexy play.
Christine will illustrate through her photographs the whole story of creating the bronze statue of Aphra Behn. Starting from her initial idea, through making the clay sculpture on a special armature, making the mould sections, followed by casting in wax for the lost wax process at the foundry. You will then see photographs of pouring […]
This talk by Charlotte Cornell from the University of Kent shines light on new archival evidence rooting Behn firmly in county dubbed 'the garden of England'. Charlotte will explore Behn's links to the villages of Harbledown, Wye and Sturry, the city of Canterbury itself and Behn's mother and father's links to wider Kent.
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Trip by train to visit Aphra Behn’s grave in Westminster Abbey. entry to the Abbey, and the flower-laying.
Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UK Research and Innovation.
A year of events celebrating the life and works of the first woman professional writer in English and daughter of Canterbury, Aphra Behn (1640-1689).
