Before modification by Ghavrel at 02/04/2015 07:53:57 AM
My French has gone out the window since I left college. Right now it's only being used intermittently to reference old Louisiana law, and Napoleon's Code Civil and its progeny were purposefully simplistic.
Now you've got me wondering whether I know any women poets in Latin. Hell, scratch that, female writers in any genre at all. Kind of drawing a blank...
The only "historical" women writers I can think of off the top of my head are Christine de Pizan, Sappho, and whatshername who wrote the Tale of Genji. Murasaki. My list gets a lot better once I hit the 20th century, but it's still not very good.