Isabella Andrews
ISABELLA ANDREWS, née YOUNG, moved with her family from Glasgow to New Zealand at age six and remained there her entire life. In 1933, she began winning competitions and earning publications for...
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...
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...
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Jane Cowl
JANE COWL (née Grace Bailey) was an American actor and playwright. Making her Broadway debut at 20, Cowl would have a fruitful acting career, ranging from Shakespearean heroines to sharing the...