Behn, Afra, a licentious writer, born in Kent, for whom, for her free and easy ways, Charles II. took a liking; sent by him as a spy to Holland, and through her discovered the intention of the Dutch to burn the shipping in the Thames. She wrote plays and novels (1640‒1689).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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