Atlas Obscura
Aphra Behn Statue in Canterbury, England
On Canterbury's High Street stands a statue of Aphra Behn, a woman who defied societal constraints and indelibly shaped the landscape of English literature as the first woman in England to achieve financial independence through her writing. Born in Canterbury in 1640, Behn went on to work as a playwright, poet, novelist, and even a spy during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. As the first female writ…
