Catharina Questiers
CATHARINA QUESTIERS (1631-1669) was a Dutch poet and dramatist. Along with Cornelia van der Veer and Katharyne Lescailje, she was the most successful female Dutch poet of the second half of the...
Catharine Trotter
CATHARINE TROTTER was self-educated and anonymously published her first novel, The Adventures of a Young Lady, at just 14 years old. Two years later, at 16, her first play Agnes de Castro (1696)...
Catherine Barnard
CATHERINE BARNARD wrote poems and novels along with plays. Her fortunately wealthy and prestigious upbringing enabled her to leave home at eighteen for a literary career in Paris. With individual...
Catherine Crowe
CATHERINE CROWE was a novelist, children’s writer, short story writer, and playwright. She wrote on historical themes, but her best-known works are her stories on the supernatural. Crowe’s work...
Catherine Durand
CATHERINE DURAND was a playwright and feminist. She wrote using her own name, as well as the pen name MD. She was inspired to write by a desire for the emancipation of women in French society....
Catherine Gore
CATHERINE GORE was an English novelist, dramatist, and playwright. The daughter of a wine merchant in Nottinghamshire, England, Gore was interested in writing from a young age, nicknamed “the...
Celia Logan
CELIA LOGAN was an actress, playwright, and journalist. Born in Philadelphia into a prominent theatre family, she grew up in cincinatto where her father ran the National Theatre. Widowed at the...
Charlotta Dorothea Biehl
CHARLOTTA DOROTHEA BIEHL (1731-1788) was an actress, translator, and playwright from Copenhagen, taught to read by her grandfather. After his death, her parents forbade her from reading, leading...