The responses to this stupid tweet claiming that before J. K. Rowling was published, women authors were unheard of are amazing. This is actually a great list of iconic female authors, and achievements of women in writing throughout history:
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While there are books that paved the way, Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein is considered the first science fiction book on the basis that ‘science’ wasn’t exactly what we’d recognize as science in 1666.
But I am interested in reading her book.