Aphra Behn Quotes
... he that will live in this World, must be endu'd with the three rare Qualities of Dissimulation, Equivocation, and mental Reservation.
Behn, Aphra. The Roundheads; or, The Good Old Cause. D. Brown, 1682, act 1, sc. 1.
Austin was negotiating as a person loyal to Mexico for the territory of Texas. He spent much time in Mexico City and even renounced his U. S. citizenship and applied for Mexican citizenship. But his negotiations were always forcefully for Texas which was viewed very differently by the many Mexican political factions. In 1834 he was jailed for sedition caught between diverse Mexican interests and his vision of Texas.
Aphra Behn was an English playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer from the Restoration era. As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barriers and served as a literary role model for later generations of women authors. Rising from obscurity, she came to the notice of Charles II, who employed her as a spy in Antwerp. Upon her return to London and a probable brief stay in debtors' prison, she began writing for the stage. She belonged to a coterie of poets and famous libertines such as John Wilmot, Lord Rochester. She wrote under the pastoral pseudonym Astrea. During the turbulent political times of the Exclusion Crisis, she wrote an epilogue and prologue that brought her into legal trouble; she thereafter devoted most of her writing to prose genres and translations. A staunch supporter of the Stuart line, she declined an invitation from Bishop Burnet to write a welcoming poem to the new king William III. She died shortly after.
