Aphra Behn
Oroonoko: Or the History of the Royal Slave
eBook
(Girlebooks.com April 1, 2008)
A short novel first published in 1688, Oroonoko centers around the tragic love of its hero, an enslaved African, and the author's own experiences in Surinam in the 1660s. Behn was the first professional female dramatist, as well as one of the first English novelists, male or female.