This article discusses the struggles of women in literature dating back to before the 18th century.

This article dives deep into the history of women's literature, common risks for female authors, and how they overcame these struggles to pave the way for all writers.

Women within "The Canterbury Tales" were often background characters, objectified, or gawked at.

Within the shepherd's poem to his love there are heavily implications that the shepherd has an idealized version of The Nymph and the life they would live; she was not The Nymph, purely just 'his love.' An object to be procured, and admired.