Women Writers: 18th Century
Madame de Stael
Pictures and portraits of Madame de Stael, feminist and salon hostess.
Olympe de Gouges and the Rights of Woman
Olympe de Gouges thought it made sense to extend the "rights of man" to the "rights of women" in the middle of the French Revolution. Unfortunately, de Gouges assumed too much. Olympe de Gouges was arrested four years after the Revolution, and was sent to the guillotine.
Madame de Staël
Madame de Stael is known for her salon, for her support of the French Revolution, and for her criticisms of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Judith Sargent Murray
A profile of Judith Sargent Murray, early American essayist, whose religious and political writing as well as personal letters help us understand that period of history. She also wrote one of the earliest feminist essays in America.
Phillis Wheatley
A biography of Phillis Wheatley and an analysis of her poetry. Phillis Wheatley was a slave in Massachusetts at the time of the Revolutionary War who was educated by her owners and became a poet and sensation for a few years.
Mary Wollstonecraft
From your About Guide to Women's History, a biography of, more articles about, quotations from, and Net links for Mary Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.