The Feign'd Curtizans: A Night's Intrigue

Name: The Feign'd Curtizans: A Night's Intrigue
Author: Aphra Behn
ISBN: 9781911495598

Author: Aphra Behn
Series: Timeless Classics
Language: English
Length: 134 pages
ISBN: 9781911495598
Published: 26 July 2016
Imprint: Sovereign

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Description

Two virtuous sisters, Marcella and Cornelia. Marcella has been promised to Octavio for marriage, but has fallen in love with Sir Henry Fillamour. Cornelia is bound for the convent. They have run away to Rome together, posing as courtesans named Euphemia and Silvianetta, so that they may be free to control their own futures.

Author

Aphra Behn 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. She wrote under the pastoral pseudonym Astrea.

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