Elizabeth Backhouse
ELIZABETH BACKHOUSE was a novelist, screenwriter and playwright. She wrote her first three novels during WWII, when she was in the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force. Although these novels...
Elizabeth Baker
ELIZABETH BAKER was an English playwright who explored class, gender, and the domestic lives of the lower middle classes. Baker was involved with the Women Writers Suffrage League and the National...
Elizabeth Cary
ELIZABETH CARY VISCOUNTESS FALKLAND (1585-1639) was a poet, dramatist, translator and historian. According to a biography written by her daughter, Cary considered poetry the highest literary form....
Elizabeth Craven
ELIZABETH CRAVEN, aka MARGRAVINE OF BRANDENBURG-ANSBACH, and previously BARONESS CRAVEN, was an English novelist and playwright. At 16, her family forced her to marry Earl William Craven. They had...
Elizabeth Griffith
ELIZABETH GRIFFIN, also credited as Elizabeth Griffiths, was a Welsh-born essayist, fiction writer, actress, and dramatist, who lived and worked in Ireland. She found her love of the stage through...
Elizabeth Inchbald
ELIZABETH INCHBALD (1753-1821) was the eighth child in a Catholic family of nine and set on performing from a very young age. At 18, she relocated from Suffolk to London to pursue those dreams....
Elizabeth Lincoln Gould
ELIZABETH LINCOLN GOULD was an American children's book author, lyricist, novelist, and playwright. Gould was born in 1862 and grew up in Boston. Her father was a publisher and bookseller,...
Elizabeth Polack
ELIZABETH POLACK was an English playwright and the first known Jewish woman playwright in England. There is limited historical information about Polack’s life, including her exact birth and death...