1000 Years Of Women Writing Plays

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...

Swarnakumari Devi

Swarnakumari Devi

SWARNAKUMARI DEVI was a Bengali poet, musician, playwright, and among the first female novelists in India. She was a member of the legendary Tagore family, who valued education and produced many...

Sybil le Brocquy

Sybil le Brocquy

SYBIL LE BROCQUY was a playwright and conservationist. A member of the Drama League, she wrote a number of short dramatic plays which were staged at the Abbey Theatre and broadcast by Radio...

Sylvia Wynter

Sylvia Wynter

SYLVIA WYNTER is a novelist, critic, essayist, and playwright, whose work is known for reframing ontological studies to decenter the Western man. After being awarded a scholarship from her high...

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