Elena Balletti
ELENA BALLETTI was an Italian actress, poet, woman of letters, playwright and writer. She came from a family of actors working in the commedia dell'arte tradition of improvising scripts and...
Elena Garro
ELENA GARRO was a journalist, playwright, and screenwriter. She is associated with the beginning of the Magical Realism literary movement, though she herself rejected the affiliation. Garro...
Elena Guro
ELENA GURO was a Russian painter, playwright, poet, and fiction writer living in the transitory period between Russian symbolism and futurism. She was born in St. Petersburg to a high-ranking army...
Elena Văcărescu
ELENA VĂCĂRESCU was a playwright, poet, and aristocrat. She was lucky to come from a very connected and well-off family, which gave her access to an education in English, French, philosophy, and...
Elise Henle
ELISE HENLE was a dramatist and poet, the author of numerous dramatic comedies, opera libretti, poems, and cookbooks. Henle was born in Bavaria to a prominent and wealthy Jewish family. She was...
Eliza Haywood
ELIZA HAYWOOD (1693-1756) began acting throughout Dublin and London in 1715, and began writing four years later, with her novel Love in Excess (1719). Soon, she was included among a trio of female...
Eliza Lanesford Cushing
ELIZA LANESFORD CUSHING was a U.S.-born playwright, novelist, poet, short story writer, and editor who spent most of her life in Montreal. She regularly contributed to the Literary Garland, under...
Elizabeth "Eliza" Ryves
ELIZABETH “ELIZA” RYVES lost her inheritance at the age of 25 by chicanery of the law. Poverty-stricken, she left her home in Ireland and went to London to petition the government over this...