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Made English a literary language with The Canterbury Tales.

Built the language most of the planet now negotiates in.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman founded feminist political theory.

Free indirect style and the social novel; still the most adapted author in English.

Frankenstein invented science fiction and the ethics-of-creation debate.

Wrote As a Man Thinketh, the movement's most reprinted book.

Stream of consciousness and A Room of One's Own.

The Sovereignty of Good returned attention and love to moral philosophy.