Merch a dramodydd o Saesnes oedd Aphra Behn (10 Gorffennaf1640 – 16 Ebrill1689); mae ei dramâu ar y llwyfan o hyd yn Llundain. Yn ystod cyfnod yr Adferiad Saesneg roedd hi'n un o brif awduron ei hoes.
Oroonoko, The Forc'd Marriage, The Dutch Lover, Abdelazer, The Town Fop or, Sir Timothy Tawdry, The Rover, The Feign'd Curtizans, The City Heiress, The Luckey Chance, The Emperor of the Moon, The Widow Ranter, or, the History of Bacon in Virginia, The Younger Brother, or, The Amorous Jilt, The Fair Jilt, Agnes de Castro, or, the Force of Generous Love, Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister, The History of the Nun
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Roedd Aphra Behn, yn un o'r awduresau cyntaf i ennill ei bywoliaeth drwy ysgrifennu.[1] Fe i ganwyd yn Wye, ger Caergaint, ar 10 Gorffennaf1640 yn ferch i Bartholomew Johnson ac Elizabeth Denham. Bedyddwyd Aphra, neu Eaffry, ym mis 14 Rhagfyr1640. Gweithiodd ei mam,Elizabeth Denham, fel nyrs i'r teulu cyfoethog Colepeper a ddaeth Aphra yn rhan o'u teulu estynnedig.
Ym 1663 aeth hi i Swrinam, ar daith i lawr yr afon o'r un enw. Seilir un o'i phrif straeon ar gaethweision y coloni, Oroonoko. Roedd lawer yn amau dilysrwydd y siwrne i ferch ond mae tystiolaeth bellach yn cadarnhau ei thaith.
Angeline Goreau, Reconstructing Aphra: a social biography of Aphra Behn (New York: Dial Press, 1980). ISBN 0-8037-7478-8
Angeline Goreau. Aphra Behn: A scandal to modesty (c. 1640-1689) in Spender, Dale (ed.) Feminist theorists: Three centuries of key women thinkers, Pantheon 1983, pp.8–27 ISBN 0-394-53438-7.
What Is Triumph in Love? with a consideration of Aphra Behn, Nancy Huntting
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Hobby, Elaine. Virtue of necessity: English women's writing 1649-88. University of Michigan 1989
Summers, Montague (ed.). Aphra Behn: Works. London 1913
Lewcock, Dawn. Aphra Behn studies: More for seeing than hearing: Behn and the use of theatre. Ed. Todd, Janet. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
Steen, Francis F. The Politics of Love: Propaganda and Structural Learning in Aphra Behn's Love-Letters between a Nobleman and His Sister. Poetics Today 23.1 (2002) 91-122. Project Muse. 19 Nov. 2007.[1]
Todd, Janet. The Critical Fortunes of Aphra Behn. Columbia: Camden House, 1998. 69-72.