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Abigail Adams
First Lady of the United States from 1797 to 1801
Aphra Behn
British playwright, poet and spy (1640–1689)

Ninon de Lenclos
French author, courtesan, freethinker, and patron of the arts (1620-1705)

Anne Bradstreet
Anglo-American poet (1612–1672)
Mary Astell
English feminist writer (1666-1731)

Marie de Gournay
French writer
Moderata Fonte
Venetian poet
Lucrezia Marinella
Venetian writer
The Book of the City of Ladies
novel by Christine de Pizan
Sofia Elisabet Weber
Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salon hostess (1659-1730)

protofeminism
Protofeminism is a concept that anticipates modern feminism in eras when the feminist concept as such was still unknown. This refers particularly to times before the 20th century, although the precise usage is disputed, as 18th-century feminism and 19th-century feminism are often subsumed into "feminism". The usefulness of the term protofeminist has been questioned by some modern scholars, as has the term postfeminist.
François Poullain de la Barre
French philosopher
Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
1798 unfinished novel by Mary Wollstonecraft
Société fraternelle des patriotes de l'un et l'autre sexe
French revolutionary organization
The Education of a Christian Woman
book by Juan Luis Vives