Janet Todd

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181 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 6 Aug

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In Our Time · Archive: Aphra Behn · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

She sees him as some sort of extraordinarily heroic man.

but somebody who's authentic and, in the end, guileless, and he falls partly because of that.

But I don't think she was ever very keen on Charles II, actually.

Well, we can't be absolute, because we haven't found a diary saying, here I was in Suriname.

But there's a huge amount of circumstantial evidence that she was there.

And if she wasn't, a woman remarkably like her was there, also calling herself Estrella, which is, after all, the name she uses all the way through.

I mean, there are state papers that mention the women in Suriname.

Well, we don't know, but I think she went as an agent right away.

But it's only speculation.

Well, she gets herself into her own works.

Her works are really faction.

She often puts herself into what she's writing.

And when she does that, she nearly always elevates her birth.

I think she's a wonderful both, actually.

But her plays are what made her famous at the time.

And a lot of them are wonderful.

But we don't put on that many restoration plays now.

So there's no doubt that at the moment it's Orinoco and the other short stories that people tend to read if they're reading anything.

But if I can just go... Can I just say one more thing about The Widow Ranter?

Because I think that's a... It's a wonderful play because...

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