Marie de France
Marie de France (wrote c. 1160-1215 CE) was a multilingual poet and translator, the first known female poet of France, and a highly influential literary voice of 12th-century CE Europe.
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Ono no Komachi
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Fatima bint Muhammad
The youngest daughter of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad and his first wife Khadija. Taking up after her father, Fatimah became highly spiritual and devoted to Islam.
Anyte of Tegea
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1800s Irish poet
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1700s Irish poet
Katharine O’Mahoney
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Hester Pulter
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