Harriet Ford
HARRIET FORD began her career as an actor and then became a prolific playwright. Her first play propelled its lead actress, Sarah Cowell LeMoyne, into public recognition. This sparked Ford’s...
Harriet L. Childe-Pemberton
HARRIET LOUISA CHILDE-PEMBERTON was an English poet, playwright and novelist. She was a member of the Christian Knowledge Society and is most known for writing children's literature according to...
Hasegawa Shigure
HASEGAWA SHIGURE (長谷川 時雨) was a Japanese playwright and editor. At nineteen, her father forced her to marry, which heightened Shigure's sense of the social injustices put against women. In 1916,...
Helena Charlotta Åkerhielm
HELENA CHARLOTTA AKERHIELM, née AF UGGLAS was a Swedish dramatist and translator. She was married to the director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre, and was the first woman to have her own play staged...
Helene Hanff
HELENE HANFF was an American writer and playwright. She was born in Philadelphia in 1916 and earned a scholarship at Temple University but dropped out to provide her family with an additional...
Hélène van Zuylen
HELENE VAN ZUYLEN, née DE ROTHSCHILD was a socialite and writer. A member of the famous Rothschild family, she had a fruitful upbringing. She married Etienne van Zuylen in 1887, but left him for...
Helen Jerome
HELEN JEROME was a British-Australian journalist, playwright, novelist, poet, and lyricist. She began writing travel pieces and poems for several newspapers, most notably The Worker and The Age,...
Helen Waddell
HELEN WADDELL was a poet, translator and playwright. She was born in Tokyo to missionary parents, but returned to Ireland at the age of eleven. Waddell was very well educated; she received her BA,...