Louise-Reine Audu, “La Reine des Halles” (the Queen of the Markets), was a brave woman of the French Revolution, a leader in both the Women’s March on Versailles in 1789 and the Storming of the Tuileries Palace in 1792.

In Burney’s world, class distinctions and strict social codes bound society with iron constraints. She use humor and satire to expose them.

Phillis Wheatley Peters, the first African-American woman poet and only the third American woman to publish a book of poems.

French Feminist Woman Writer.

Margaret Calderwood (1715–1774) was a Scottish diarist who wrote about her journeys through England to Brussels after the Jacobite rising .

Lady Eglantine Wallace, 18th-century playwright and political commentator.

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), an 18th-century British woman writer and early feminist, wrote about the place of women within society.