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 # The big list of women who did things
 
+<!-- for future reference: we are alphabetizing by LAST name. Only first if no surname -->
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 Unfinished, obviously.
 
-Last updated: 2024-11-12
+Last updated: 2024-11-19
 
 ## Art
 - [Aphra Behn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphra_Behn): one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing
 - [Tina Bell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Bell): pioneer of the "grunge" music genre, before Nirvana
 - [Lisa Ben](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Ben): created *Vice Versa*, the first known lesbian publication in North America
+- [Anne Bradstreet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Bradstreet): first writer to be published in England's North American colonies
 - [Diemoth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diemoth): 12th-century recluse who transcribed at least forty-five manuscripts; notable for her "beautiful handwriting"
 - [Emilia Lanier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilia_Lanier): first known woman in England to declare herself a poet
 - [Enheduanna](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enheduanna): first known poet
-- [Marie de France](https://archive.md/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marie-de-France): earliest known French woman poet
 - [Herrad of Landsberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herrad_of_Landsberg): 12th-century nun who wrote an early pictoral encyclopedia, *Hortus deliciarum*, to teach the women in her convent about the sciences of the time
 - [Hrotsvitha](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrotsvitha): first female writer (from German-speaking lands) and first female historian
 - [Baya Mahieddine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baya_(artist)): surrealist artist whose work was imitated by Picasso
+- [Marie de France](https://archive.md/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marie-de-France): earliest known French woman poet
 - [Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_St._Vincent_Millay?lang=en): first woman (and second person!) to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
+- [Julian of Norwich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich): author of *Revelations of Divine Love*, the earliest surviving English-language works attributed to a woman
 - [Lucy Terry Prince](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Terry): author of *Bars Fight*, the oldest known work of literature by an African American
 - [Lotte Reiniger](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotte_Reiniger): director/writer of the oldest surviving animated feature film, [_The Adventures of Prince Achmed_](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Prince_Achmed)
 - [Mary Shelley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley): novelist and pioneer of the science fiction genre of books