Aphra Behn: A Secret Life

by Janet Todd

  Ships, Abraham’s Sacrifice, here, here, here

  Castel Rodrigo, here

  King David, here, here–here, here, here

  Orange, here

  Royal Charles, here–here, here

  Yarmouth, here

  Shirley, James, here

  Sidney, Algernon, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Sidney, Dorothy, later Countess of Sunderland, here–here, here

  Sidney, Henry, here, here

  Sidney, Isabella, later Lady Strangford, here, here, here

  Sidney, Mary, later Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, here, here

  Sidney Philip, Lord L’Isle, later third Earl of Leicester, here–here, here, here–here, here, here

  Sidney, Robert, first Earl of Leicester, here

  Sidney, Robert, second Earl of Leicester, here, here, here, here

  Sidney, Sir Philip, here

  Sidneys, here, here, here, here

  Slaves, slavery, here, here, here–here, here, here, here

  Smith, William, here, here

  Somerset, Charles, Marquis of Worcester, here

  Somerset, Henry, Duke of Beaufort, here

  Somerton, John, here, here

  Southerne, Thomas, Oroonoko, here, here, here

  Sir Anthony Love, here

  Spectator, here

  Spencer, Robert, Earl of Sunderland, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Spencer, Robert, here

  Spenser, Edmund, here

  Spies, spying, espionage, here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Spinoza, Baruch here

  Sprat, Thomas, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Stafford, see Howard, William

  Steele, Richard, here

  Stevenson, Matthew, here

  Stewart, Frances, here

  Strangford, Philip, Lord, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here

  Surinam, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here

  Swift, Jonathan, here

  Sydserff, Thomas, here, here

  Sykes, William, here, here, here

  Tallemant, Abbé Paul, here, here–here, here, here, here

  Tarquini, Francisco de, here–here, here

  Tasso, Torquato, here, here, here, here

  Tate, Nahum, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Tatham, John, here, here, here, here, here

  Taylor, Elizabeth, here, here, here, here, here

  Taylor, Randal, here–here, here, here

  Taylor, Sir Thomas, here

  Temple, Sands, here–here

  Theatre, here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here; passim, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here

  and politics, here, here–here, here, here

  Thomas, Elizabeth, here, here

  Thurloe, John, here, here, here, here, here, here–here

  Tillotson, John, here

  Tonge, Israel, here

  Tonson, Jacob and Richard, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Tories, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Tragedy, here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Tragicomedy, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Translation, here–here, here, here–here, here–here, here, here–here, here

  Transvestism, cross-dressing, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here

  Trefry, John, here, here, here, here, here

  Trotter, Catherine, here, here

  True Protestant Mercury, here

  Trye, Mary, here, here

  Tryon, Thomas, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Tunbridge Wells, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Turner, William, here, here, here, here

  Underhill, Cave, here, here, here, here

  United Company, here, here, here, here

  Unities, theatrical rules, here–here, here–here, here, here

  Van Mechelen, Anna Louisa, here–here

  Van Mechelen, Maria Theresa, here–here

  Van Schurman, Anna Maria, here

  Vaughan, Henry, here

  Venereal disease, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Venice, here, here–here, here

  Vernatty, Nick, here

  Vernattys, here

  Verney, Sir Ralph, here

  Verney, Tom, here

  Verrio, Antonio, here

  Vertue, George, here

  Villiers, George, second Duke of Buckingham, here

  Rehearsal, here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Vincent, Samuel, here

  Virgil, here, here, here, here

  Virginia, here, here, here, here–here, here–here, here

  Voyeurs, voyeurism, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here

  Wakeman, Sir George, here, here

  Waller, Abigail, here

  Waller, Edmund, here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here–here, here

  Warcup, Captain, here, here

  Ward, Mary, here

  Ward, Sir Patience, here, here, here, here

  Warner, Father John, here, here

  Warren, George, here, here–here, here, here–here

  Welldon, Madam, here, here

  Wentworth, Lady Henrietta, here, here, here, here, here

  Wentworth, Thomas, Earl of Strafford, here

  Westminster Abbey, here, here, here, here

  Weston, Peter, here

  Wet-nurse, here–here

  Wharton, Anne, here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Whigs, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here–here, here, here, here

  Whitelocke, Bulstrode, here

  Whores Rhetoric, here

  Wilkins, George, here

  William, Prince of Orange, later William III, here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here; passim

  Williamson, Joseph, here, here, here, here

  Willoughby, Francis, Lord of Parham, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Wilmot, Henry, Viscount, here, here

  Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  ‘Fair Cloris in a Piggsty’, here

  ‘Lais Junior’, here

  ‘Letter from Artemiza’, here

  ‘Platonick Lady’, here

  ‘Ramble in Saint James’s Park’, here

  ‘Signior Dildo’, here

  ‘Tunbridge Wells’, here

  Valentinian, here–here, here

  and Barry here

  and Behn here–here; passim, here, here, here, here, here, here

  as fictional rake, here, here, here

  death, here–here, here, here–here, here, here

  Wilson, John, here–here

  Wolseley, Robert, here, here, here, here

  Woman Turn’d Bully, The, here

  Wood, Anthony à, here, here, here, here


  Woolf, Virginia, here–here, here

  Woolley, Hannah, here, here

  Worcester, Battle of, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Wren, Sir Christopher, here

  Wright, James, here, here, here

  Wright or Write, John, here, here

  Wright Thomas, here, here

  Wroth, Lady Mary, here, here, here

  Wycherley, William, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here

  Country Wife, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Plain-Dealer, here, here

  Wythens, Francis, Judge, here, here, here

  About the Author & Author’s Previous Works

  Janet Todd was born in Wales and grew up in Britain, Bermuda and Sri Lanka. She has worked in Ghana, Puerto Rico, India, Scotland and England. In the US, at the University of Florida and Douglass College, Rutgers, she began the first journal devoted to women’s writing. She has published on the novel and memoir and written biographies of Jane Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughters Fanny and Mary Shelley, and the Irish Lady Mount Cashell. A Professor Emerita at the University of Aberdeen and Honorary Fellow of Newnham College, Janet Todd is a former President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, where she established the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize. She has published two novels: Lady Susan Plays the Game and A Man of Genius. She lives in Cambridge and Venice.

  JANET TODD’S PREVIOUS WORKS

  Women’s Friendship in Literature (New York: Columbia University Press, 1980, 1984, 1992)

  English Congregational Hymns in the Eighteenth Century; their purpose and design (Watts to Cowper), co-authored with M. Marshall (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1983)

  Sensibility: an Introduction (London: Methuen, 1986)

  Feminist Literary History (Cambridge: Polity Press and New York: Routledge, 1988) The Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing and Fiction 1660 1800 (London: Virago, 1989; New York: Columbia University Press, 1990, 1992)

  Gender, Art and Death (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1993)

  The Secret Life of Aphra Behn (London: André Deutsch, 1996; New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997; London and New York: Pandora and New York University Press, 1999; London: Bloomsbury eBook, 2013)

  The Critical Fortunes of Aphra Behn (London and New York: Boydell and Brewer, 1998)

  The Revolutionary Life of Mary Wollstonecraft (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson; New York: Columbia University Press, 2000; paperback London: Phoenix Press, 2001; London: Bloomsbury eBook, 2013)

  Rebel Daughters: Ireland in Conflict (London: Viking, 2003; Daughters of Ireland New York: Ballantine Books, 2004)

  The Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)

  Death and the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle (London: Profile Books; Berkeley: Counterpoint Press, 2007)

  The Jane Austen Treasury: A Collection of Fascinating Insights into Her Life, Her Time and Her Novels (London: André Deutsch, 2014, 2017)

  Lady Susan Plays the Game (London: Bloomsbury eBook, 2013; paperback, 2016) A Man of Genius (London: Bitter Lemon Press, 2016; paperback, 2017)

  Selected Editions since 1990

  The Complete Works of Alary Wollstonecraft (7 vols., with Marilyn Butler) (London: Pickering and Chatto and New York: New York University Press, 1990) Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary, A Fiction and Maria; Mary Shelley, Matilda (London: Pickering and Chatto, 1991; London: Penguin, 1992)

  Oroonoko, The Rover and Other Works (London: Penguin, 1992)

  The Complete Works of Aphra Behn (7 vols., London: Pickering and Chatto; Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1992 6; London: Taylor and Francis ebook, 2017)

  The Poetry of Aphra Behn (New York: New York University Press, 1996)

  Aphra Behn, Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister (London: Penguin, 1996) The Political Writings of Mary Wollstonecraft (London: Pickering and Chatto; Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993; Oxford University Press, 1994) Counterfeit Ladies: Mal Cutpurse and Mary Carleton (with Elizabeth Spearing) (London: Pickering and Chatto and New York University Press, 1994)

  Charlotte Smith, Desmond (with Antje Blank) (London: Pickering and Chatto, 1997; Calgary: Broadview 2001).

  The Complete Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004; London: Penguin, 2003)

  Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (London: Penguin, 2003)

  The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen (General Editor) (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005–8)

  Selected Edited Collections

  An Anthology of British Women Writers (with Dale Spender) (London: Pandora, 1989)

  Aphra Behn Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)

  Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn (with Derek Hughes) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)

  Jane Austen in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)

  Cambridge Companion to Pride and Prejudice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013)

  Discover books by Janet Todd published by Bloomsbury Reader at

  www.bloomsbury.com/JanetTodd

  Non-Fiction

  Death and the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle

  Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life

  Aphra Behn: A Secret Life

  Fiction

  Lady Susan Plays the Game

  Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life

  By Janet Todd

  www.bloomsbury.com/JanetTodd

  ‘The full force of Mary Wollstonecraft’s achievement emerges from Janet Todd’s biography’ Guardian

  In her richly detailed, all-encompassing biography of the first major feminist in England, Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd highlights her intellectual and sexual dilemmas, her glamorous life, and her tumultuous loves.

  Since the first publication of Mary Wollstonecraft: A revolutionary Life, in 2000, further historical evidence has been discovered – a letter to Count Bernsdorf in 1795 – and Janet Todd has revised this Bloomsbury Reader edition of her biography to reflect the new perspective this letter gives to some of the events.

  The combination of Mary Wollstonecraft’s works, with her efforts to live a revolutionary inner and outer life, has no equal.

  Lady Susan Plays the Game

  By Janet Todd

  A must-read for any devotee of Jane Austen, Janet Todd’s reimagining of the epistolary novel Lady Susan will capture your literary imagination and get your heart racing.

  Austen’s notorious anti-heroine, Lady Susan, a beautiful and manipulative widow, suddenly finds herself in dire financial need. Faced with the unpalatable prospect of having to spend her widowed life in the countryside, Lady Susan embarks on a serious of games to ensure she can stay in town with her first passion – cards. Scandal inevitably ensues as she negotiates the politics of her late husband’s family, the identity of a mysterious benefactor and a passionate affair with a married man.

  True to Jane Austen’s style, as befits Todd’s position as a leading Austen scholar, this second coming of Lady Susan is as shocking and hilarious as when Jane Austen first imagined her.

  For copyright reasons, any images not belonging to the original author have been removed from this book. The text has not been changed, and may still contain references to missing images

  An earlier edition of this book, The Secret Life of Aphra Behn, was published in 1996 by André Deutsch Ltd/Rutgers University Press, and in 2000 by Rivers Oram/Pandora.

  This electronic edition published in 2017 by Bloomsbury Reader

  This edition copyright © 2017 Janet Todd

  Cover image: Woman with a Mask (oil on canvas)

  Lorenzo Lippi (1606–65) / Musée des Beaux-Arts, Angers, France

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  Cover design: Jeremy Hopes

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