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...
Mária Földes
MÁRIA FÖLDES was a playwright of Jewish descent. She and her mother survived multiple concentration camps during the Holocaust, until they were liberated by the Russians in Langenbialau. After the...
Maria Irene Fornés
MARIA IRENE FORN was a pivotal figure in Hispanic-American and experimental theatre, both for her unique vision as a writer and for her dedication as a director and teacher. A Guggenheim Fellow,...
María Luisa Algarra
MARIA LUISA ALGARRA was born in Barcelona, but later exiled to Mexico after World War II. Algarra was a highly educated woman for her time, having received a law degree from the University...