Rather than searching for the love of a husband to support her, Behn took to pen and paper in an attempt to provide her own living. ... The start of Aphra Behn's writing career coincided with the opening of the London theatres, where she began to write for Sir William Davenant's Duke of York's company at Dorset Garden. ... Behn's tragic love story chronicles the life of an African prince who is captured and transported to a sugarcane plantation as a slave on the British colony of Surinam. ... Yet in the end, the prostitute does not find love and Florinda and Hellena both a...

• Word Count: 2238
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate