Therese Mergerle Von Mühlfeld
THERESE MERGERLE VON MÜHLFELD was a writer and translator. She was married off when she was sixteen years old, and her dowry was large enough to allow her husband to work in theatre. After...
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Tsarevna Natalya Alexeyevna
TSAREVNA NATALYA ALEXEYEVNA was the oldest daughter of Tsar Alexis and sister of Peter the Great. She supported her brother’s aim to Westernize Russia and she founded the city’s first Russian...
Una Marson
UNA MARSON was a Jamaican activist, poet, playwright, editor, essayist, radio producer, and broadcaster. In 1928, she became Jamaica’s first female editor and publisher with her feminist magazine,...
Una Troy
UNA TROY was an Irish novelist and playwright whose career began in 1936 when she published her novel Mount Prospect under the pen name “Elizabeth Connor”. The novel was quickly banned in the...
Urilka (Ullie) Akerstrom
URILKA (ULLIE) AKERSTROM was an actress, dancer, writer, and avid playwright known for her wide variety of facial expressions and her sharp wit. Born and raised in NYC, her mother taught her dance...
Valeria Miani
VALERIA MIANI was born in Padua, Italy, and possibly educated in a convent, though little about her early personal life can be confirmed. She was married at age 30, uncommonly late in life for the...
Velga Krile
VELGA KRILE was a Latvian poet and playwright. She wrote a total of sixteen plays in her lifetime, as well as a large collection of poems. Krile was known for exploring complex and existentialist...
Vera Caspary
VERA CASPARY was a novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. She started work as a stenographer but, frustrated and wanting to write her own material, she moved to New York as editor of “Dance...