1000 Years Of Women Writing Plays

Elizabeth Polwheele

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

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...

Eliška Pešková

Eliška Pešková

ELISKA PESkOVA (Eliška Pešková) was a major stage actor and playwright. An influential actress during her era, she was best remembered for her portrayals of heroines, and was admired by many. She...

Ella Cheever Thayer

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

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

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

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...

Emma Gad

Emma Gad

EMMA GAD was one of the most prolific playwrights of her time. Although 25 of her scripts were published or performed in Denmark between 1886 and 1916, she is remembered now mostly for her rules...

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