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 […]
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 […]
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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).
