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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1749 – 1832

A poet who also did serious science, and defined what a modern European is.

Germany·Literature · Biology · PhilosophyFull profile

Mary Wollstonecraft

1759 – 1797

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

United Kingdom·Politics · Philosophy · Literature

Jane Austen

1775 – 1817

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

United Kingdom·Literature

Mary Shelley

1797 – 1851

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

United Kingdom·Literature