Proto-feminists

French poet and author (1364 – c. 1430)

Mexican writer, philosopher, playwright and poet

queen consort of Navarre (1492–1549)

Byzantine empress from 527 to 548

Héloïse (c. 1101 – 16 May 1164), variously Héloïse d'Argenteuil or Héloïse du Paraclet, was a French nun, philosopher, writer, scholar, and abbess.

artist, scientist and philosopher from the Northern Netherlands (1607-1678)

English poet

Spanish writer of the Golden Age

16th-century Guaraní rebel from early-colonial Paraguay.