Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was the unique woman author in the Restoration. She wrote a lot of types of works but in this essay we get to see her original or different fiction’s works. She was the only female dramatist and in the Restoration was when she became in a major writer of prose and so, of fiction. Probably she turned to prose because she enjoyed it, with it she could do different things like play with authorial control and use news themes of love and obsession impossible in drama. Fiction could use it, as she discovers with her first effort, Love-Letters between a Nobleman and His Sister, a long novel about the politically tempestuous years when James II began to lose his throne. The novel was obviously anonymously published and it was a remarkable production. It gave to Behn confidence in her virtue to write prose. One special thing in Behn´s fiction is the narrator; it could be female or of indeterminate sex and this narrator is not omniscient like normal nineteenth-century fiction. We can see this type of narrator in her famous novel Oroonoko.
I have written about Aphra Behn and especially I have explained a little her prose because although prose is the genre in which she less wrote she was very good at it.
I have written about Aphra Behn and especially I have explained a little her prose because although prose is the genre in which she less wrote she was very good at it.
