*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.
* {{cite book | title = The Theatre of Aphra Behn | author = Derek Hughes | year = 2001 | publisher = Palgrave Macmillan | isbn = 0-333-76030-1}}
* {{cite book | title = The Secret Life of Aphra Behn | author = [[Janet Todd]] | year = 1997 | publisher = Rutgers University Press | isbn = 0-8135-2455-5}}
*{{cite book | title = Aphra Behn - The Incomparable Astrea | author = [[Vita Sackville-West]] | year = 1927 | publisher = Gerald Howe}} A view of Behn more sympathetic and laudatory than Woolf's.
* {{cite book | title = [[A Room of One's Own]] | author = [[Virginia Woolf]] | year = 1929 }} One section deals with Behn, but it is a starting point for the feminist rediscovery of Behn's role.
*''What Is Triumph in Love? with a consideration of Aphra Behn'', Nancy Huntting
