1000 Years Of Women Writing Plays

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...

Cicely Hamilton

Cicely Hamilton

CICELY HAMILTON, NÉE HAMMILL co-founded the Women Writers’ Suffrage League. Her play Diana of Dobson's, a popular social comedy, premiered in 1909 and was frequently revived. She co-wrote A...

Clara Andersen

Clara Andersen

CLARA ANDERSEN was a dramatist and novelist considered to be the most successful female playwright in the Netherlands. She was the daughter of a theatrical musician and was an actor herself, so...

Clare Beecher Kummer

Clare Beecher Kummer

CLARE BEECHER KUMMER was a playwright, lyricist, and composer born in Brooklyn in 1873. In 1903, she began composing and contributing songs for musicals. Her 1905 song “Dearie” sold over 1 million...

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