1000 Years Of Women Writing Plays

Stella Jones

Stella Jones

STELLA JONES, née CLARIDGE, was one of nine children born to a regional newspaper editor, who moved the family throughout New Zealand following stories. Stella launched her own career by writing...

Sumie Tanaka

Sumie Tanaka

SUMIE TANAKA (田中澄江) was a Japanese playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and lyricist. She studied Japanese Literature at Tokyo Women’s Higher Normal School, where she started writing plays. She...

Sumner Locke

Sumner Locke

SUMNER LOCKE was a novelist, dramatist, poet and short story writer. Locke began publishing short stories in such publications as The Bulletin and the Native Companion before her first play was...

Su Qing

Su Qing

SU QING (蘇青) was a Chinese writer, editor, activist, and playwright. She was admitted to the National Central University in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, as an English major at nineteen. She quit...

Susan Glaspell

Susan Glaspell

SUSAN GLASPELL was a playwright, actor, director, novelist, and poet who began her career as a journalist in Iowa, but quit at the age of twenty-four. With her husband George Cram Cook, she...

Susanna Centlivre

Susanna Centlivre

SUSANNA CENTILVRE, twice widowed and left in poverty, in 1700 began to support herself by writing for the stage with her first play first play The Perjur'd Husband: or, The Adventures of Venice....

Susanna Rowson

Susanna Rowson

SUSANNA ROWSON, NÉE HASWELL was a poet, novelist, actress, playwright, first woman geographer in the United States and pioneer in female education. She was born in England but moved to America to...

Suzanne R. Day

Suzanne R. Day

SUZANNE R. DAY was an Irish novelist and playwright who lived in Cork, France, and London at different points in her life. She was a feminist who formed a Cork local branch of the Irish Women’s...

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