Who was the real Jane Austen? A retiring spinster content with quiet village life? Or a strong-minded woman who chose to remain unmarried and to fashion herself as a professional writer?
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'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.' Virginia Woolf A Room of One’s Own Aphra Behn was a poet, author and playwright, best remembered today as being one of the first English women to earn a living with her pen.