Who is the first female writer?

Sappho. A archaic Greek poet from the 6th century BCE, Sappho is considered to be by many the first female writer. Not only is her work celebrated today, in antiquity she was a celebrated artist.
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Who is the first woman writer in world?

Among the first known female writers is Enheduanna; she is also the earliest known poet ever recorded. She was the High Priestess of the goddess Inanna and the moon god Nanna (Sin). She lived in the Sumerian city-state of Ur over 4,200 years ago.
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Who is the first female writer in English literature?

Aphra Behn (/ˈæfrə bɛn/; bapt. 14 December 1640 – 16 April 1689) was the first professional woman writer in the English language. She also lays claim to have written the first English novel. She was an English playwright, poet, prose writer and translator from the Restoration era.
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What is female writer called?

An authoress is a female author. Most people object to this word, and prefer to be called authors.
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Who was the first female writer in India?

Tarabai shinde was born in Buldhana. She wrote many books and was the first author known for feminist writing.
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Who is first poet?

Enheduanna, the author of a number of hymns dedicated to the priestess Inanna, is a fascinating figure. She was a Sumerian high priestess who lived in the 23rd century BC, around 1,500 years before Homer. Enheduanna lived in the city of Ur (in modern-day Iraq), and was a priestess of the Sumerian moon god Nanna.
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Who made the first book?

The first actual book written on paper is said to have been made in China. It was created using mulberries, hemp, bark and even fish to form a big pulp, that could be pressed and dried to form paper.
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Who wrote the first story?

The first written story that has come down to us is The Epic of Gilgamesh. It is a mythologized account of an historical figure, Gilgamesh, a ruler of the Sumerian city-state of Uruk, believed to have ruled sometime between 2700-2500 BC.
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Who was the first woman to publish a book?

Speaking of firsts, Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet became the first published female writer in the North American colonies when her book, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, was printed and sold in England.
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Who is first novelist?

The Tale of Genji: The world's first novel? Written 1,000 years ago, the epic story of 11th-Century Japan, The Tale of Genji, was written by Murasaki Shikibu, a woman. Written 1,000 years ago, the Japanese epic The Tale of Genji is often called the world's first novel.
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Who was the first black female author?

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (September 24, 1825 - February 20, 1911) was a Black American poet, author, and lecturer who became a household name in the 19th century. The first Black American woman to publish a short story, she was also an influential abolitionist and women's suffrage activist.
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Who Wrote the Bible?

Even after nearly 2,000 years of its existence, and centuries of investigation by biblical scholars, we still don't know with certainty who wrote its various texts, when they were written or under what circumstances.
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How old is the Bible?

The first Biblical stories were passed down orally and only written down later by various authors. Most Biblical scholars believe the Book of Genesis was the first book to be written down. This would have happened around 1450 BC to 1400 BC. So perhaps about 3400 years or so ago.
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Who is the first writer in the world?

The world's first known author is widely considered to be Enheduanna, a woman who lived in the 23rd century BCE in ancient Mesopotamia (approximately 2285-2250 BCE). Enheduanna is a remarkable figure: an ancient “triple threat”, she was a princess and a priestess as well as a writer and poet.
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Who invented poem?

Poetry probably dates back to cavemen and the earliest shamans, who chronicled events in picture-stories. This cave painting in Lascaux, France, is thought to date from between 15000 and 13000 B.C.
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Who was the first published female poet?

Anne Bradstreet wasn't just the first woman to be published in England's North American colonies. She was the first Englishwoman to publish a book of poems and the first published American poet.
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How old is Adam and Eve?

They used these variations to create a more reliable molecular clock and found that Adam lived between 120,000 and 156,000 years ago. A comparable analysis of the same men's mtDNA sequences suggested that Eve lived between 99,000 and 148,000 years ago1.
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What day is Jesus's birthday?

From Rome, the Christ's Nativity celebration spread to other Christian churches to the west and east, and soon most Christians were celebrating Christ's birth on December 25.
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When did God create earth?

Among the Masoretic creation estimates or calculations for the date of creation only Archbishop Ussher's specific chronology dating the creation to 4004 BC became the most accepted and popular, mainly because this specific date was attached to the King James Bible.
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Did Jesus have a wife?

"Christian tradition has long held that Jesus was not married, even though no reliable historical evidence exists to support that claim," King said in a press release.
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Who created the God?

We ask, "If all things have a creator, then who created God?" Actually, only created things have a creator, so it's improper to lump God with his creation. God has revealed himself to us in the Bible as having always existed. Atheists counter that there is no reason to assume the universe was created.
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Who is God in the Bible?

God is our creator

We read in Genesis, the first book of the Bible, that God created everything—light, earth, water, air, plants, animals, and humans.
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Who are the most famous female writers?

10 Famous Women Writers
  • Enheduanna—The Poetic Trailblazer. ...
  • Maya Angelou—The Outspoken Activist. ...
  • Beverly Cleary—The Patron Saint of Emotional Honesty. ...
  • Willa Cather—The Frontier Pioneer. ...
  • Sandra Cisneros—The Chicano Literature Champion. ...
  • Virginia Woolf—The Modernist Maverick. ...
  • Louisa May Alcott—The Abolitionist Author.
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Who was America's first black?

This was is in the Cathedral Parish Archives in St. Augustine, Florida, thirteen years before more enslaved Africans were brought to the English colony at Jamestown in 1619. William Tucker, the first Black child born (recorded) in the American colonies, was baptized on January 3, 1624, in Jamestown, Virginia.
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