I learn from Natalie that today is the anniversary of Aphra Behn’s baptism in 1640. (No! I will not be pedantic and ask which calendar!) So, a few links to celebrate with:
The Aphra Behn Page
The Aphra Behn Society
Short biography (another)
Bibliography
A memoir of Aphra Behn
Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave
Bibliography on Oroonoko
Shifting power in Oroonoko
Credibility and realism in Moll Flanders and Oroonoko
Rhetorics of representation in Oroonoko
The Rover (more at Adelaide)
Game of Love (The Rover)
Selected poetry (more poems) (lots of poems!)
The City Heiress (more at Virginia)
The Lady’s Looking Glass.. or the Whole Art of Charming (more at Emory Women Writers Project)
The World of London Theatre 1660-1800
Theatre history on the Web
Restoration Print Culture
Behn and racism
Slavery and the slave trade in Britain
And why not finish up with her own words?
Fair lovely Maid, or if that Title be
Too weak, too Feminine for Nobler thee,
Permit a Name that more Approaches Truth:
And let me call thee, Lovely Charming Youth.
This last will justifie my soft complaint,
While that may serve to lessen my constraint;
And without Blushes I the Youth persue,
When so much beauteous Woman is in view.
Against thy Charms we struggle but in vain
With thy deluding Form thou giv’st us pain,
While the bright Nymph betrays us to the Swain.
In pity to our Sex sure thou wer’t sent,
That we might Love, and yet be Innocent:
For sure no Crime with thee we can commit;
Or if we shou’d – thy Form excuses it.
For who, that gathers fairest Flowers believes
A Snake lies hid beneath the Fragrant Leaves.Though beauteous Wonder of a different kind,
Soft Cloris with the dear Alexis join’d;
When e’er the Manly part of thee, wou’d plead
Though tempts us with the Image of the Maid,
While we the noblest Passions do extend
The Love to Hermes, Aphrodite the Friend.
Early Modern Notes 
Was Aphra Behn really Christened today, though? Not necessarily. The truth is that no one can prove much about her life until she appeared as a spy in the Netherlands. All attempts at identifying Aphra in church records have proven less than satisfactory. See Janet Todd’s lastest biography, The Secret Life of Aphra Behn for more details.
Thanks for the reference Simon. Even the short biographies (well, some of them…) indicate that there’s uncertainty about whether the Aphra Johnson who was baptized on 14 December 1640 near Canterbury was the later ‘Aphra Behn’. I didn’t know any of that at the time (so I’ve learned something!), but I merely use things like this as an excuse for a post. Besides, I suspect that that’s 14 December O.S. rather than N.S., in which case it’s not an exact anniversary anyway…