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How to use Behn in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Behn? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Eliza Haywood followed the footsteps of Aphra Behn when, in 1719, she used her name with unprecedented pride.
Of these, Behn, Dryden, Rochester, and Gould deserve some separate mention.
One of the most remarkable aspects of Behn's success in court poetry, however, is that Behn was herself a commoner.
If Behn is a curious exception to the rule of noble verse, Robert Gould breaks that rule altogether.
One of the most significant figures in the rise of the novel in the Restoration period is Aphra Behn.
Behn wrote the novel in two parts, with the second part showing a distinctly different style from the first.
Aphra Behn, Matthew Prior, and Robert Gould, by contrast, were outsiders who were profoundly royalist.
The few comedies produced also tended to be political in focus, the whig dramatist Thomas Shadwell sparring with the tories John Dryden and Aphra Behn.
Examples from Classical Literature
In this there is some injustice against Mrs. Centlivre, for whose name should be supplied that of aphra Behn.
So I sent Mrs. aphra Behn, curiously sealed up, with 'private and confidential' on the packet, to my gay old grand-aunt.
Mrs. aphra Behn was the first Englishwoman who adopted literature as a regular profession.
It was published anonymously, 4to, 1677, and all the best critics with one accord ascribe it to Mrs. behn.
Possibly behn v. Burness, stated above, might have been dealt with in this way.
Students should note that the editorial material is sometimes significantly at variance with current behn scholarship.
As for the cavilling crew who carped at her during her life Mrs. behn has answered them and she was thoroughly competent so to do.
Bellons version does not differ materially from Mrs. behn, but she far exceeds him in spirit and niceness of style.
Mrs. behn said almost the same thing about her novels and plays.
It is hoped that this new issue of Mrs. behn may prove adequate.
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