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Aphra Behn

Aphra Behn (1640-1689) is often cited as the first known professional female writer. She was an English playwright, poet, translator, essayist, and fiction writer who pioneered the modern novel. Her stories appeared eighty years before Richardson's Pamela (1740), which is commonly called the first English novel.

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