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Frances Brooke
FRANCES BROOKE was a novelist, essayist, playwright, and translator. Although orphaned at a young age, she was taken in by relatives and received an excellent education. By 1748 she was living in...
Frances Burney
FRANCES BURNEY was a novelist, diarist and playwright. In all, she wrote four novels, eight plays, one biography and twenty-five volumes of journals and letters. Burney was self-educated and began...
Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan
FRANCES CHAMBERLAINE SHERIDAN was an Anglo-Irish novelist and playwright. After her father forbade her from reading as a child, her three rebellious brothers tutored her in English and Latin. By...
Frances Goodrich
FRANCES GOODRICH was an American actress, screenwriter, and playwright. Goodrich was born in New Jersey and graduated from Vassar College in 1912. She attended the New York School of Social Work...
Frances Hodgson Burnett
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT was a British-American novelist and playwright who emigrated to the United States at age four. Burnett began her writing career at nineteen to help earn money for the...
Franciszka Arnsztajnowa
FRANCISZKA ARNSZTAJNOWA was a poet, translator, and playwright of Jewish descent. Born in Lublin, Poland, she is known as “the legend of Lublin.” During World War One, she was a member of the...
Françoise de Graffigny
FRANÇOISE DE GRAFFIGNY was a French novelist, playwright and salon hostess.. Initially famous as the author of Lettres d'une Péruvienne, a novel published in 1747, she became the world's...
Françoise Pascal
FRANCOISE PASCAL was a poet, painter, playwright and lyricist. She became known for her poems, paintings (now lost) and especially her theater plays. In fact, she is considered the first woman...