# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aphra-behn
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:00:50.038Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aphra-behn"
name: "Aphra Behn"
slug: "aphra-behn"
description: "Aphra Behn was an English playwright, poet, prose writer and translator from the Restoration era. As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barriers and served as a literary role model for later generations of women authors. Rising from obscurity, she came to the notice of Charles II, who employed her as a spy in Antwerp. Upon her return to London and a probable brief stay in debtors' prison, she began writing for the stage. She belonged to a coterie of poets and famous libertines such as John Wilmot, Lord Rochester. Behn wrote under the pastoral pseudonym Astrea. During the turbulent political times of the Exclusion Crisis, she wrote an epilogue and prologue that brought her legal trouble; she thereafter devoted most of her writing to prose genres and translations. A staunch supporter of the Stuart line, Behn declined an invitation from Bishop Burnet to write a welcoming poem to the new king William III. She died shortly after."
tagline: "British playwright, poet and spy (1640–1689)"
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gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1640-07-10"
deathDate: "1689-04-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump