Marguerite Merington
MARGUERITE MERINGTON was a British-born dramatist and writer. As a young girl, her family immigrated to Buffalo, New York, where she was enrolled in a convent school. There, she discovered her...
Maria Aurelia Capmany i Farnés
MARIA AURELIA CAPMANY I FARNÉS was a playwright, essayist, and award-winning novelist. She earned a philosophy degree from the University of Barcelona, and then went on to teach. She won the...
María Bibiana Benítez Batista
MARÍA BIBIANA BENÍTEZ BATISTA was Puerto Rico’s first known female poet and playwright. Her family was well off due to her father’s involvement with the Spanish government. They owned a private...
Maria Clara Machado
MARIA CLARA MACHADO was a Brazilian playwright born in Belo Horizonte in 1921. As the daughter of award-winning writer Aníbal Machado, she grew up immersed in the arts. She studied theatre in...
Maria Dąbrowska
MARIA DĄBROWSKA, born Maria Szumska, was a Polish novelist, playwright, essayist, and journalist. While raised under Tsarist military control, she developed an interest in literature and politics....
Maria De Wilde
MARIA DE WILDE was a Dutch engraver and playwright of the Dutch Republic. She was born and died in Amsterdam, where she played an active part in the upper-class bourgeois world of artists and...
María de Zayas
MARÍA DE ZAYAS, a member of Madrid’s aristocracy, was a writer during Spain's Golden Age of Literature and considered by a number of modern critics to be one of the pioneers of literary feminism....
Maria Edgeworth
MARIA EDGEWORTH was a playwright and author who is considered one of Ireland’s greatest novelists. Born in England, she moved to Ireland when she was five years old after the death of her mother...