1000 Years Of Women Writing Plays

Georgia Douglas Johnson

Georgia Douglas Johnson

GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON was a poet, one of the earliest African-American female playwrights, and an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance. She spent her early years in Georgia and became a...

Geraldine Cummins

Geraldine Cummins

GERALDINE CUMMINS was an Irish novelist, playwright, and spiritualist medium. She began her career as a journalist and creative writer, writing three plays for the Abbey Theatre with Suzanne R....

Gertrude E. Jennings

Gertrude E. Jennings

GERTRUDE E. JENNINGS was a prolific British playwright, renowned for her one-act plays. She began her career as an actress with Ben Greet’s company, performing under the name Gertrude Henriques....

Gertrude Elizabeth Blood

Gertrude Elizabeth Blood

GETRUDE ELIZABETH BLOOD, aka LADY COLIN CAMPBELL, was an Irish-born journalist, and playwright. First known for a scandalous marriage and divorce, the trial ostracized her from society. To reshape...

Gertrude Robbins

Gertrude Robbins

Gertrude Robbins was an English playwright, actress, and pilot in the early 20th century and a contemporary of George Bernard Shaw and J.M. Barrie. Robbins wrote over fourteen plays throughout her...

Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein

GERTRUDE STEIN was an American novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, and art collector. Stein was amongst the first to collect art from Cubists and other experimental painters of the early 20th...

Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda

Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda

GERTRUDIS GÓMEZ DE AVELLANEDA was a Cuban-born novelist, playwright, and poet. Her family moved to Spain in 1836, where she started writing as "La Peregrina" (The Pilgrim) and published her first...

Githa Sowerby

Githa Sowerby

GITHA SOWERBY, aka K.G. SOWERBY, was an English playwright, children's writer, and member of the Fabian Society. She was well-known during the early 20th century for her 1912 play Rutherford &...

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