... to Belville, "Thou know'st there's but one way for a Woman to oblige me" (I.ii: 267). But like Horner, all women seem the same to him. He declares, "Oh for my Arms full of soft, white, kind-Woman!" (II.i: 16) and accosts Florinda in the garden for no other reason than that she is there and "'tis a delicate shining Wench" (III.iii: 25). After ... by using her sex as her power. Sadly, all her courtesans wealth cannot save Angelica from the bondage of submissive passion in which her true love for Wilmore snares her. Unlike Etheridges The Man of the Mode wherein the rake was redeemed by the...

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... to England. Around 1669, she was released when her debts were paid off by an unidentified source. Shortly after being discharged she returned to London. 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. Her independence in becoming a writer was a bold choice in ... fact, women were not even allowed to sign contracts on their own. 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 Ga...

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