Marie Jenney Howe
MARIE JENNEY HOWE was a suffragist and organizer from New York. Originally a minister, she married political reformer Frederic C. Howe in 1904, then moved to New York City in 1910 where she helped...
Marie Lenéru
MARIE LENÉRU was a playwright and diarist, who contracted measles as a child, leaving her partially blind and completely deaf. This did not deter her from receiving an education, however. She...
Marie Vieux-Chauvet
MARIE VIEUX-CHAUVET was born and raised in Port-au-Prince, the daughter of a local politician. She originally studied elementary education, before beginning to write novels that explored race,...
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH was an Austrian playwright and author, regarded as one of the most important German language writers in the late 1800s. Despite coming from a highly educated...
Marie-Adélaïde Barthélemy-Hadot
MARIE-ADÉLAÏDE BEARTHÉLEMY-HADOT was a French novelist and playwright. She was also a member and municipal officer of the Revolutionary Committee during the French Revolution. She believed the...
Marie-Catherine de Villedieu
MARIE-CATHERINE DE VILLEDIEU, born Marie-Catherine Desjardins and also known as MADAME DE VILLEDIEU, was a novelist and playwright. She moved to Paris with her mother when she was fifteen, after...
Marieluise Fleisse
MARIELUISE FLEISSE attended a Catholic boarding school as a child, which later became the context for many of her stories. At university, she studied theatre, philosophy, and German literature....
Marion Fairfax
MARION FAIRFAX was an American screenwriter, playwright, and producer with a prolific writing career for stage and screen. She started as an actor, appearing in Broadway productions and then wrote...