Barbara Ogier
BARBARA OGIER was a Flemish playwright who represented the Chamber of Rhetoric in Antwerp, and mostly wrote plays commemorating Flemish government and history. She challenged societal norms by...
Barbara Vernon
BARBARA VERNON was a playwright, screenwriter, editor and radio announcer. She served in the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force during WWII, then joined the radio industry. She began writing...
Barbarina Brand
BARBARINA BRAND, aka Lady Dacre (née Ogle), was an English poet, playwright, and translator. Born into an aristocratic family, Brand was primarily educated at home. Her first collection, Dramas,...
Baroness Orczy
BARONESS EMMA ORCZY was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. In 1903, Orczy and her husband, Montagu Barstow, wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel, a play based on one of her short stories...
Beah Richards
BEAH RICHARDS was an American stage, screen, and television actress, playwright, poet, author, and activist. In 1948, she received a degree from Dillard University in New Orleans and moved to New...
Beatrice Harraden
BEATRICE HARRADEN was a popular writer, best known for her romantic novels. A graduate of Bedford College, the University of London, she was as well educated as possible for a Victorian woman, in...
Bell Elliott Palmer
BELL ELLIOTT PALMER was an American playwright and writer. She was orphaned at a young age and raised by her grandparents. She attended the University of Chicago and married a banker, James...
Bernarda de Lacerda
BERNARDA DE LACERDA was a poet and playwright, celebrated in verse by both Manuel de Gallegos and Lope de Vega, suggesting that she was highly regarded as a poet by her male peers. Though none of...