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SYMHC Classics: Aphra Behn

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The History of the English Civil War

In 16 63, when she was in her early twenties, ben travelled to sernom, and this would later become the setting for her work of fiction, orinoco. Orinoco tells the story of a prince from the gold coast in what is now gana, who's invited aboard a ship and then enslaved before being sold in serenom. This narrator is an english woman who had come to serenom with her father, but he died during the sea voyage. Some biographies actually take this plot point from orinoco and apply it to ben's real life father, although he had likely died by the alymid 16 sixties. It's completely unclear whether this

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