17th Century
One of the most important feminist writers in the English language in the 17th century was Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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“It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)