1000 Years Of Women Writing Plays

Charlotte Lennox

Charlotte Lennox

CHARLOTTE LENNOX was a poet and playwright best remembered for her novels. Due to her father’s service in the British Army, she spent her childhood moving between England and the American...

Charlotte Mary Sanford Barnes

Charlotte Mary Sanford Barnes

CHARLOTTE MARY SANFORD BARNES was a U.S. actor and playwright best known for her play Octavia Bragaldi, or The Confession (1837). Next to Anna Cora Mowatt, she was the most successful female...

Charlotte von Stein

Charlotte von Stein

CHARLOTTE VON STEIN was a German playwright. She had a long-standing affair with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a famous German writer. Goethe dedicated several poems to Charlotte, as well as modeled...

Christiane Koren

Christiane Koren

CHRISTIANE KOREN was an author, poet, and playwright. She was born in Denmark but married a Norwegian Justice and spent the remainder of her life there. Koren is best known for her diaries, which...

Christina Reid

Christina Reid

CHRISTINA REID was a prominent figure among Belfast playwrights in the 1980s. She often favored writing about other people’s lives, as she believed her own to be uninteresting. She wrote radio...

Christine Longford

Christine Longford

CHRISTINE LONGFORD, Countess of Longford, was an English playwright and novelist. She was born in Somerset, England in 1900 and earned a Classical scholarship at Somerville College, Oxford, where...

Christine Wetherill Stevenson

Christine Wetherill Stevenson

CHRISTINE WETHERILL STEVENSON was an American playwright. Born in 1878, she was the heiress to the Pittsburgh Paint Company. She married twice, the first to John V. Rice Jr. and the second to...

Christopher St. John

Christopher St. John

CHRISTOPHER ST. JOHN was born Christabel Marshall in Exeter in 1871 and changed her name after converting to Catholicism. After studying at Somerville College, Oxford, she worked as a secretary to...

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