for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds." (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox. Behn's work paved the way for women writers who came after her, as Virginia Woolf noted in a Room of One's Own (1928): "All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn. The work was an instant success and was adapted for the stage in 1695 (and more recently by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1999). Perhaps based partly on Behn's own experiences living in Surinam, the novel tells the tragic story of a noble slave, Oroonoko, and his love Imoinda. Read by Elizabeth KlettĪphra Behn was the first woman writer in England to make a living by her pen, and her novel Oroonoko was the first work published in English to express sympathy for African slaves. Aphra Behn depicts the natives of Surinam as innocent, good-natured. LibriVox recording of Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave, by Aphra Behn. Behn depicts how British imperialism, in tandem with the Atlantic slave trade, fundamentally changed life in Africa.
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