1000 Years Of Women Writing Plays

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...

Mărgărita Miller-Verghy

Mărgărita Miller-Verghy

MARGARITA (Mărgărita) MILLER-VERGHY was both a writer and a socialite, born in Romania to parents of noble ancestry. Her father died when she was young so Margarita’s mother took the family abroad...

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...

Marghanita Laski

Marghanita Laski

Laski was an English writer and radio panellist who grew up in a Jewish family that was deeply invested in religion, politics, and education. Laski went to Somerville College to study English, she...

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...

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