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Female Authors before 1500

By Gurushala
 | 11 Nov 2020

Women in Literature before 1500
Ancient literature fills us with hope and awe to encounter a person’s ideas thousands of years after their death. Throughout history, it’s simply been a lot harder for women to gain the time, space, recognition, and education necessary to write something with a chance of surviving centuries.

The first recorded woman playwright in England was Katherine of Sutton, abbess of Barking nunnery in the fourteenth century. Here are some women writers before 1500 that you've probably never heard of. 

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