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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Josephine Marchand Dandurand
JOSEPHINE MARCHLAND was a Canadian journalist, writer, and activist who came from a privileged background. Originally a short story writer, she began writing plays roughly a decade after her...
Josephine Preston Peabody
JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY was a poet and dramatist. Her love of literature was something she absorbed from her parents at a young age. Peabody’s poetry was first published when she was fourteen...