Event details
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Title
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CHW23 Professor Elaine Hobby: The first professional woman writer in English |
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Date
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Sun
30
Apr
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Event
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Lecture |
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Time
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12:00pm - 1:00pm |
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Venue
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Old Sessions House, OS.0.01, Longport, Canterbury, CT1 1NX |
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Contact
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artsandculture@canterbury.ac.uk
or Tel: 01227 922994
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Price
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Standard Adult - £10.00
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The first professional woman writer in English, Aphra Johnson, was from Canterbury. Born in Harbledown in 1640, under her married surname of Behn she had a spectacular career on the London stage in the 1670s and 80s, and wrote ground-breaking fiction and poetry, too.
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