The world's first named composer was also a woman, and her name was Hildegard von Bingen.

Nice! I'm gonna whip this out in Women's Lit next week!

Wow! thanks for posting

I think it is really awesome that the first author whose name we know from history was a woman! :)

Lovely!

There's a bit about her in Amanda Foreman's documentary series The Ascent of Woman (which is worth watching in its entirety!):

https://youtu.be/W1tVtEMKGAY?t=809

(That should link to the start, but it's at 13:28 in the video)

Very cool! Hope they don't trans her now.

I recently listened to a podcast episode about Enheduanna which was really lovely: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-worlds-first-writer/id1513737418?i=1000561680253

Archive: https://archive.ph/3Hazr

What an amazing piece of history, I am ashamed for not having known of her! Thank you so much for sharing, I will be researching more about her!!