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Anna Brenko
ANNA BRENKO was an actress, playwright and theatre manager whose efforts to create an ensemble-based company preceded Stanislavski by almost two decades. After an uninspiring stint as an actor,...
Anna Catharina Materna
ANNA CATHARINA MATERNA, née VON DER LÜHE, joined one of the first performing troupes at the Royal Danish Theatre, after they advertised a shortage of actresses, in an era when it was shameful for...
Anna Cora Mowatt
ANNA CORA MOWATT was an author, playwright, actress, and preservationist. She eloped with her first husband, a prominent and wealthy lawyer, at the age of 15. He encouraged her to write and...
Anna Cora Mowatt Richie
Anna Cora Mowatt Richie was a French-born American playwright, actress, author, public reader, and preservationist. Mowatt was born in Bordeaux, France, and moved with her family to the United...
Anna Gmeyner
Anna Gmeyner was an Austrian-Jewish playwright, screenwriter, and novelist born in Vienna to a very liberal and intellectual household. After studying in Austria for five years she moved to Berlin...
Anna Magdalene Thoresen
ANNA MAGDALENE THORESEN, née KRAGH, was a poet, novelist, short story writer and playwright. Originally born in Denmark, she moved to Norway in 1842 to become a governess for a widower with five...
Anna Maria Hall
ANNA MARIA HALL, writer, editor and philanthropist, was born in Ireland but moved to England at the age of 15. She made her writing debut in 1829 with a series of sketches, later collected in one...
Anne Barbara Ridler
ANNE BARBARA RIDLER was a British poet, editor, and playwright. She was born into a family of editors and authors and graduated from King’s College London in 1932 with a diploma in journalism. She...