But she is also great, and arguably the first of her kind, in a more old-fashioned sense.
No, this is the first piece of drama, and arguably the first piece of writing, really to get under the skin of the government.
He was a master of optical illusions, a cryptographer, an early proponent of a universal symbolic language and arguably the first person to discover the germ theory of disease, possibly even the first person to ever use a microscope.
14 October 2014 Fighting the gender imbalance in science, engineering and tech, this day pays homage to Charles Babbage's colleague – and arguably the first computer programmer – Ada Lovelace, by encouraging efforts to raise the profile of women across the sciences.
One of the sassiest putdown lines in history, and arguably the first great wisecrack ever written down for posterity, was voiced at the battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC.
"Mr. McGrath writes, 'Jane Eyre' is both a Gothic horror story and arguably the first and most satisfying chick-lit novel.' First of all, 'Jane Eyre' remains today a part of the English canon, you know the books we all learn in school so that we grow into well-rounded individuals.
The story of an orphan who becomes a governess, sticks up for herself and finds true love in a spooky, haunted-seeming mansion, all the while pouring her heart out on the page in prose that is lush, romantic, almost hypnotic, "Jane Eyre," is both a Gothic horror story and arguably the first and most satisfying chick-lit novel.
The topic was "Has the progress of the sciences and arts done more to corrupt morals or improve them?" In his "Confessions," published in 1782, and arguably the first modern autobiography, Rousseau described how "the moment I read this I beheld another universe and became another man".
Ancient Iraq is famous for many global "firsts" - Mesopotamia gave us the first writing, the first city, the first written law code, and arguably the first empire.
Eventually, this would all lead to the award in 2004 of the Nobel Peace Prize - the first time it had gone to an African woman, and arguably the first "green Nobel".
