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Many women writers of the 1840s admired Safo (Sappho) as a «positive image of the woman writer»
(Kirkpatrick 81).
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Michelene Wandor writes that «Historically, women have been more in evidence as playwrights at moments of social and cultural change, as a small minority, disappearing when the social crisis is over»
(Understudies 60-61).