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...
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...
Joy Barlow
JOY BARLOW, born Juanita Casey, was a poet, playwright, novelist, artist, and horse breeder. She was adopted into a wealthy Southampton-based brewing family; one of her Uncles was a fluent Romani...
Juanita Casey
Juanita Casey was a playwright, novelist, poet, artist, as well as a horse and zebra trainer and breeder. She was born in England and was adopted by a wealthy Southampton brewing family that sent...
Judith Sargent Murray
JUDITH SARGENT MURRAY was an essay writer, playwright, and poet. Born into a merchant family, Murray taught herself history, literature, and philosophy, focusing on the achievements of women...