https://github.com/davorg-cpan/app-aphra

Static web site generator in Perl
https://github.com/davorg-cpan/app-aphra

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Static web site generator in Perl

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/davorg-cpan/app-aphra
• Owner: davorg-cpan
• Created: 2017-03-15T20:54:58.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-10-28T15:38:01.000Z (3 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-28T17:45:50.582Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: cpan, hacktoberfest, perl
• Language: Perl
• Homepage:
• Size: 68.4 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 7
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: Changes.md

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![Aphra Behn](https://aphra.perlhacks.com/img/aphra.webp "Aphra Behn")

> **Aphra Behn** (/ˈæfrə bɛn/; 14 December 1640? – 16 April 1689) was a British

> playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer from the Restoration era. As

> one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke

> cultural barriers and served as a literary role model for later generations

> of women authors. Rising from obscurity, she came to the notice of Charles

> II, who employed her as a spy in Antwerp. Upon her return to London and a

> probable brief stay in debtors' prison, she began writing for the stage. She

> belonged to a coterie of poets and famous libertines such as John Wilmot,

> Lord Rochester. She wrote under the pastoral pseudonym Astrea. During the

> turbulent political times of the Exclusion Crisis, she wrote an epilogue

> and prologue that brought her into legal trouble; she thereafter devoted

> most of her writing to prose genres and translations. A staunch supporter

> of the Stuart line, she declined an invitation from Bishop Burnet to write

> a welcoming poem to the new king William III. She died shortly after.

> 

> She is famously remembered in Virginia Woolf's *A Room of One's Own*: "All

> women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn which

> is, most scandalously but rather appropriately, in Westminster Abbey, for

> it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds." Her grave

> is not included in the Poets' Corner but lies in the East Cloister near

> the steps to the church.

>

> *Aphra Behn* - [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphra_Behn)