Olympe De Gouges

Olympe de Gouges was a woman who lived in France during the French Revolution. She was a feminist and an abolitionist. She accomplished many things during her life. One of the things she accomplished was writing pieces of literature and plays. She was the first woman to publish books and plays using her own name and not a male pseudonym. Every woman who was a playwright before her had used male pseudonyms to avoid being criticised for it. Her first play was called The Generous Man, and it was about a rich man who struggled with the thought that he could do anything we wanted to do to women because, at that time, women had almost no rights. It also discusses how going to prison because a person has debt is unjust. She wrote many other plays