1000 Years Of Women Writing Plays

Eliza Lanesford Cushing

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

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...

Elsie Park Gowan

Elsie Park Gowan

Elsie Park Gowan was a Scottish-born Canadian playwright who specialized in radio plays. Gowan worked as a teacher before receiving a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Alberta in...

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...

Emma Sheridan Fry

Emma Sheridan Fry

EMMA SHERIDAN FRY was an actor, teacher, playwright and founder of the Children's and Young People's Theatre in New York City. She also served as director of the Children's Educational Theatre and...

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