Exhibition at The Beaney, High Street, Canterbury. ‘Canterbury’s Aphra Behn (1640-1689): Literature’s best kept secret’
2024-06-08 - 2024-08-18 | The Beaney House of Arts and Knowledge, 18 High Street, Canterbury, CT1 2RA, United Kingdom
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. The exhibition traces her story, starting in a world where outspoken women might be punished, via her spying trip to Antwerp in 1666, to her glittering London career in the 1670s and 1680s.
