Aphra Behn was an English playwright, novelist, and poet in the late 1600s who wrote books with a feminist and libertine perspective. In her books she conveyed characters that offered a challenge to established patriarchal behavior and conventionality. Her books were some of the first ever written by a woman, providing early support of female authorship. Although Behn faced criticism for her books' complex themes, she is credited as having a ‘liberating effect’ on later generations by leading the way for women to write books on whatever they desired. Her inspiring attitude towards creativity even made her the centerpiece of Virginia Woolf’s 1929 essay “A Room of One's Own", encouraging future female writers to not let gender be an obstacle to their artistry.
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