• Aphra Behn (ca. 1640-1689). The first woman known to have made her living by her pen in English; a major author and dramatist of the Restoration era. Hired as a British spy, she made valuable findings at Antwerp which were ignored. Her racy life and writing provoked both prim opposition and highest literary praise. Behn's style and spirit, which championed women as artists and as persons, remain powerful and passionate to the modern reader.
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Aphra Behn postcard

From Women Making History: The Revolutionary Feminist Postcard Art of Helaine Victoria Press by Julia M. Allen and Jocelyn H. Cohen

  • Part of the Women in History accordion album of 8 postcards, Helaine Victoria’s premier offering showcasing their creative letterpress style and craft. Jocelyn and Nancy created this shortly after setting up their letterpress shop in Indiana. Their new logo, Columbia, appeared on the back cover of the album. Although the two of them produced many ambitious pieces of ephemera, all in all this may have been the most ambitious on every level. Eight new postcards in an elegant handmade album folder, designed, printed, and bound by Jocelyn Cohen and Nancy Poore. Printed letterpress in black with silver detail, 4 ¼” x 6". Portrait: Aphra Behn by Mary Beale 1633-1699
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