1000 Years Of Women Writing Plays

Margaret Bland

Margaret Bland

MARGARET BLAND was a playwright and poet. Born and raised in North Carolina, Bland began writing plays while an undergraduate at Agnes Scott College, and continued to study playwrighting at the...

Margaret Cavendish

Margaret Cavendish

MARGARET CAVENDISH DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE published poetry, plays, essays, and fiction, all under her own name at a time when most women writers wrote anonymously. The aristocrat addressed...

Margaret Kennedy

Margaret Kennedy

MARGARET KENNEDY was an English novelist and playwright. She began writing during her time at Cheltenham Ladies’ College and went on to study history at Somerville College, Oxford in 1915. She is...

Margaret Mayo

Margaret Mayo

MARGARET MAYO worked at many things. She was an adapter, actress, film company founding partner, playwright, and a writer.. She moved to New York as a teen to pursue an acting career, but began...

Margarita Urueta

Margarita Urueta

MARGARITA URUETA was a Mexican writer, novelist, and playwright. She began writing at seven years old. Her father was the well-known Mexican revolutionary, Jesús Ureta; she would later author his...

Margherita Costa

Margherita Costa

MARGHERITA COSTA, singer, poet, playwright and early feminist, is the most Baroque of the seventeenth-century Italian women writers and stands out for her original style and themes. She was the...

Marguerite Dale

Marguerite Dale

MARGUERITE DALE was an Australian playwright and feminist. In 1921, her first play was chosen for performance at the Sydney Repertory Theatre, followed by several more productions through 1934...

Marguerite De Navarre

Marguerite De Navarre

MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE, aka MARGUERITE OF ANGOULÊME, was the princess of France, Queen of Navarre, and Duchess of Alencon and Berry. She was married to Henry II of Navarre. Her brother Francis I...

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