Jennifer Rankin
JENNIFER RANKIN was an Australian poet and playwright. She was born in Chatswood, New South Wales in 1941 and moved to Sydney with her family to obtain her primary education at a Methodist School....
Joan Littlewood
JOAN LITTLEWOOD, originally from a working-class family in London, earned a scholarship to train at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London as an actor. Dissatisfied with the training and the...
Joanna Baillie
JOANNA BAILLIE was a dramatist and poet who reached critical acclaim, a rare feat for a Scottish woman. Through her aunt, Anne Hunter, Baillie met with some of the most brilliant minds throughout...
Joan Ure
JOAN URE was the pen name of Scottish poet and playwright Elizabeth Thoms Clark. She was born in England to Scottish parents in 1918, with whom she moved to Glasgow in her youth. Her passion for...
John Oliver Hobbes
JOHN OLIVER HOBBES, originally Pearl Mary Teresa Richards, was a novelist, essayist, and playwright born in Boston but raised in London. Her first novel, Some Emotions and a Moral, was published...
Josefina Niggli
JOSEFINA NIGGLI was a Mexican-born Anglo-American novelist, playwright and poet. Niggli is regarded as the first woman to write in English on Mexican themes and topics. Her egalitarian views of...
Josefina Plá
JOSEFINA PLÁ was a poet and playwright. She was born in Spain and showed a remarkable talent for writing from an early age. By the time she was twelve, she was writing fiction, drama and poems,...
Josephine Kermode
JOSEPHINE KERMODE was a Manx (Gaelic diasporic ethnic group on the Isle of Man) poet and playwright better known under the pen name Cushag. One of seven children, Kermode’s father inspired a love...