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...
Bowles was a significant literary influence, feminist writer, and playwright whose small body of work left an underground reputation among influential writers. She was born to a Jewish family in...
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...
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...
JANE LUMLEY was a noblewoman, baroness, and translator. She came from a wealthy and powerful family, which gave her access to a fantastic education, as well as to her father’s vast library. Lumley...
JANE MURFIN was a screenwriter and playwright. The author of several successful plays, she wrote some of them with actress Jane Cowl—most notably Smilin' Through (1919), which was adapted three...
JANET MCNEILLwas a Dublin-born playwright and novelist. She earned her Masters degree from the University of St. Andrews in 1929 before moving to Belfast, where she worked as a secretary for the...
JANE WISEMAN was a poet and playwright. Wiseman came from a modest background; she was self-taught and worked as a servant. She is regarded as the first self-educated working-class woman to have a...