Isabella Grinevskaya
ISABELLA GRINEVSKAYA NEE BEYLY FRIEDBERG was a Russian-Jewish playwright, novelist, translator and poet. She was highly active in Yiddish literary circles and published many short stories...
Isabella Harwood
ISABELLA HARWOOD was an English playwright and novelist. She found commercial success with her novels Raymond’s Heroine (1867) and Kathleen (1868). Harwood wrote initially under her own name until...
Isabel Mackay
ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY was a journalist, novelist, poet, and playwright. She began publishing her work in newspapers and magazines when she was fifteen years old. By the end of her life, Mackay...
Isabel Prieto de Landázuri
ISABEL PRIETO DE LANDÁZURI was a poet and playwright. Born in Spain, her family moved to Mexico when she was four and she is considered to be one of the first women to enter Mexico’s literary...
Isidora Aguirre
ISIDORA AGUIRRE was an essayist, novelist, and playwright. Her playwriting career started in the 1950s Chilean university theatre scene, which had a greater artistic and technical rigor than...
Izumo no Okuni
IZUMO NO OKUNI (出雲 阿国) is believed to be the founder of kabuki, a traditional form of Japanese theatre. She was born near Izumo Province, and became a shrine maiden where she began performing.....
Jane Arden
JANE ARDEN was a English film director, actress, playwright, screenwriter, and poet. Arden wrote for TV, film, and stage, getting consistent work in all fields. In the 1950s, she mainly wrote...
Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Egerton
JANE CAVENDISH and ELIZABETH EGERTON were a sister literary duo. They collaborated on a number of poems and plays throughout their lifetimes. Their father, William Cavendish, was a patron of the...