Yeah, I remember from my (VERY SHORT) career teaching and (much longer) EngLit grad student days, the Important stuff or the First stuff (altho what is considered First or Important, a whole other thing) is often not that great. But like Woolf said, we should all go lay wreaths on the grave of Aphra Behn. IIRC she's also writing in the tradition of a kind of mannered style, it's not like Jane Austen who basically came up with her own free indirect thing. I think.