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...
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...
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...