Elizabeth Polwheele
ELIZABETH POLWHEELE was an English playwright and one of the first women to write for the professional stage during the Restoration period. While much of her personal life is a mystery, we know...
Elizabeth Robins
ELIZABETH ROBINS was an actor, playwright, novelist, theatre manager, and suffragette. From 1880 to 1883, she acted with Edwin Booth’s theatre and the Boston Museum Stock Company. After her...
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...
Ella Cheever Thayer
ELLA CHEEVER THAYER was an American playwright and novelist. She was born in Maine but moved to Boston, and became a telegraph operator at the Brunswick Hotel. Thayer used her experience there as...
Elsa Bernstein
ELSA BERNSTEIN was a writer and dramatist. After marrying the journalist Max Bernstein, she hosted one of the most notable musical and literary salons of the late 19th and eaerly 20th Centuries....
Else Lasker-Schüler
ELSE LASKER-SCHÜLER was considered a child prodigy, with the ability to read and write at age four. After dropping out of school, she received private home lessons. In 1902, she published her...
Elvira Santa Cruz Ossa
ELVIRA SANTA CRUZ OSSA (known as “Roxane”) was a Chilean playwright and novelist. She wrote about social issues, particularly gender equality and education in newspapers and magazines. She also...