Write about the 17th and 18th Century

The 17th and 18th centuries had a lot of literary movements after the Renaissance. For example, there was the amatory, the cavalier, the metaphysical, the augustans, and the beginning of romanticism movements. These movements involved many genres from love to conceit to satire and skepticism. The poets and authors, many of which wrote about love, comedy, the enlightenment, and the Restoration period were the inspiration so to speak of later authors. 

an English author of the 18th century was Mary Wollstonecraft, the mother of Mary Shelley who wrote Frankenstein. Wollstonecraft wrote novels, treatisies, a travel narrative, a conduct book, a children's book, and a history of the French Narrative. She was also an advocate for womens' rights. Wollstonecraft believed that men and women should be treated equally.  Wollstonecraft believing this led her to write A Vindication on the Rights of Women.