Aphra Behn: A Secret Life

''All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn; for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds,'' said Virginia Woolf. Yet that tomb, in Westminster Abbey, records one of the few uncontested facts about this Restoration playwright, poet, novelist and spy: the date of her death, 16 April 1689. For the rest secrecy and duplicity are almost the key to her li...