> Until Mary Shelley
> and Emily Dickinson came around in the nineteenth century, there had been
> virtually no female notability (I'm excluding "nobility")
Why? Elizabeth I wasn't exactly a retiring housewife, and Eleanor of
Aquitaine seems to have got up to some pretty notable stuff (she may well
be responsible for our whole modern idea of 'love').
> since Joan of Arc,
Who was quite likely just a tool of some French aristocratic cabal or
other...
> and prior to her, Sappho.
Who was Sappho? I've heard her name mentioned a few times, but missed out
on her somehow...
Mark
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