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- Scottish playwrights can be found in Scottish Women Writers.
| Author | Title | State |
|---|---|---|
| Farr, Florence; Shakespear, Olivia | The Beloved of Hathor and the Shrine of the Golden Hawk [1902] | proj_submit_pgposted |
| Wilcox, Constance Grenelle | Egypt's eyes [1924] | proj_post_first_available |
| Du Bois, Theodora | The Sleeping Beauty [1919] | proj_post_first_available |
| H. D. | Hippolytus Temporizes [1927] | F2.proj_waiting |
| Waddell, Helen | The Spoiled Buddha [1919] | proj_post_first_available |
| Ehlert, Fay | The undercurrent [1929] | F2.proj_waiting |
| Ariadne | She ventures, and he wins [1696] | F1.proj_avail |
| Amherst, Elizabeth | A dramatick pastoral [1762] | P1.proj_waiting |
| Cibber, Susannah Maria Arne | The oracle [1763] | project_new |
| Petrova, Olga | The white peacock [1922] | project_new |
| Yearsley, Ann | Earl Goodwin [1791] | P1.proj_unavail |
| Pix, Mary | Ibrahim, the thirteenth emperour of the Turks [1696] | project_new |
| Willcox, Helen | Kasim; a play of Persia [1926] | project_new |
| Bibesco, Elizabeth | The painted swan [1926] | project_new |
| Phelps, Pauline; Short, Marion | Witches' hour and candle light [1922] | P1.proj_waiting |
| Marks, Jeannette Augustus | The sun chaser [1922] | project_new |
Clearances
| Author | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Phelps, Pauline | Her Cuban tea | "Pauline Phelps Pieces" |
Index of Authors
✓ = All eligible works in DP or PG
Genres: closet drama, comic opera, farce, masque, pantomime
| ✓ | Author | aka | Wiki | PG | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ✓ | Abington, Frances | wiki | PG | actor who wrote two plays, only one produced / "Matrimony; or, The Sleep Walker" (based on Le Somnambule by de Ferriol) attributed to her (though other sources say Eliz. Craven), can't find any other. Not available online. | |
| ✓ | Amherst, Elizabeth Frances | Thomas, Elizabeth Frances | wiki | PG | poet and naturalist whose Dramatick pastoral was produced in 1762 |
| ✓ | Ariadne | wiki | PG | pseudonym of unknown author of She Ventures and He Wins | |
| Aubin, Penelope | wiki | PG | primarily a novelist; one play produced | ||
| Balfour, Mary E. | wiki | PG | one play produced, Belfast | ||
| Barrell, Maria | wiki | PG | born in West Indies; poet, playwright, and writer for periodicals | ||
| Barrymore, Mrs. W[illiam?] | hub? | PG | one play produced | ||
| Behn, Aphra | wiki | PG | usually credited with being the first female professional playwright in English; one of "the fair triumvirate of wit" | ||
| Berkeley, Elizabeth | Princess Berkeley | wiki | |||
| Berry, Mary | wiki | PG | one play produced, one in manuscript | ||
| Bibesco, Elizabeth | |||||
| Boaden, Caroline | dad | PG | author of at least six plays; daughter of James Boaden | ||
| Booth, Ursula Agnes | PG | actor who wrote at least one farce | |||
| Boothby, Frances | wiki | PG | author of the first original play by a woman to be produced in London | ||
| Bourchier, Rachel | Countess of Bath | wiki | PG | wrote masques | |
| Bowes, Mary | Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne | wiki | PG | published one play | |
| Boyd, Elizabeth | wiki | PG | one play; wrote primarily in other genres | ||
| Brand, Barbarina | wiki | PG | published four plays, one produced | ||
| Brand, Hannah | wiki | PG | published playwright | ||
| Brooke, Charlotte | wiki | PG | one play published but not produced | ||
| Brooke, Frances | wiki | PG | primarily a novelist; wrote comic opera | ||
| Brooks, Virginia Fox | wiki | ||||
| Browning, Elizabeth Barrett | wiki | PG | primarily a poet; one closet drama and one translation | ||
| Burgess, Mrs. | wiki | PG | one comedy, produced in Canterbury | ||
| Burke, Miss | wiki | PG | one comic opera/burletta | ||
| Burney, Frances | wiki | PG | primarily a novelist; author of several plays, only one produced in her lifetime | ||
| Burney, Frances | wiki | PG | niece of Frances Burney; wrote two tragedies which were published but not produced | ||
| Burrell, Sophia | wiki | PG | author of two tragedies | ||
| Carstairs, Christian | wiki | PG | poet who wrote a short theatrical | ||
| Cary, Elizabeth | Viscountess Falkland | wiki | PG | first woman known to have written and published an original play in English | |
| Cavendish, Jane | wiki | PG | co-authored a pastoral masque with her sister, Elizabeth Egerton | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret | Duchess of Newcastle | wiki | PG | author of closet dramas | |
| Celesia, Dorothea | wiki | PG | translated Voltaire's Tancrède | ||
| Centlivre, Susannah | wiki | PG | successful playwright | ||
| Chambers, Marianne | wiki | PG | English playwright | ||
| Charke, Charlotte | wiki | PG | playwright/actor/manager | ||
| Cibber, Susannah | wiki | PG | actor who had at least one masque produced | ||
| Clive, Catherine | Clive, Kitty | wiki | PG | actor; wrote farces with some success | |
| Collier, Jane | wiki | PG | The Cry (1754), co-authored with Sarah Fielding | ||
| Cooper, Elizabeth | wiki | PG | actor, playwright, and poet | ||
| Corbett, Grace | Corbett sisters | wiki | PG | novelists, playwrights, and anthologists; sister of Walterina Cunningham | |
| Cornelys, Margaret | wiki | PG | author of two comedies and a ballad opera; only one produced (Dublin 1781) | ||
| Cowley, Hannah | wiki | PG | playwright and poet | ||
| Craven, Elizabeth | wiki | PG | writer of farces and pantomimes | ||
| Cullum, Mrs. | wiki | PG | one drama, not produced | ||
| Cunningham, Walterina | Corbett sisters | wiki | PG | novelists, playwrights, and anthologists; sister of Grace Corbett | |
| Cuthbertson, Catherine | wiki | PG | novelist who wrote one play | ||
| Davys, Mary | wiki | PG | novelist; produced one play; had another published | ||
| De Humboldt, Charlotte | wiki | PG | poet and author of the tragedy Corinth (1821) | ||
| Deverell, Mary | wiki | PG | author of two plays, neither performed | ||
| Doolittle, Hilda | H.D. | wiki | PG | ||
| Dubois, Dorothea | wiki | PG | wrote musical entertainments | ||
| Du Bois, Theodora | wiki | PG | |||
| Edgeworth, Maria | wiki | PG | widely read novelist who also wrote comic dramas; published but not performed | ||
| Edwards, Anna Maria | wiki | PG | one play, produced in Dublin | ||
| Edwards, Christian | wiki | PG | one play, published but not produced | ||
| Egerton, Elizabeth | wiki | PG | co-authored a pastoral masque with her sister, Jane Cavendish | ||
| Egleton, Jane | wiki | PG | actor who wrote a ballad opera | ||
| Ehlert, Fay | |||||
| Farr, Florence | wiki | PG | |||
| Fielding, Sarah | wiki | PG | The Cry (1754), co-authored with Jane Collier | ||
| Finch, Anne | Countess of Winchilsea | wiki | PG | primarily a poet; also wrote verse dramas | |
| Forsyth, Elizabeth | wiki | PG | author of The Siege of Quebec | ||
| Francis, Ann | wiki | PG | poetic dramatization of The Song of Solomon (1781) | ||
| Fraser, Susan | wiki | PG | author of one poetic tragedy, Comala (1809) | ||
| Gardner, Sarah | wiki | PG | comedic actor and playwright | ||
| Geisweiler, Maria | wiki | PG | author of dramas, unproduced | ||
| Goldsmith, Mary | wiki | PG | author of two comic pieces | ||
| Gore, Catherine | wiki | PG | eleven plays produced | ||
| Green, Mrs. | wiki | PG | author of one play | ||
| Griffith, Elizabeth | wiki | PG | playwright | ||
| Gunning, Elizabeth | wiki | PG | a tragicomedy, not produced | ||
| Harlow, Elizabeth | wiki | PG | bookseller; author of one comedy | ||
| Harrison, Elizabeth | wiki | PG | The Death of Socrates in Miscellanies on moral and religious subjects (1756) | ||
| Harvey, Margaret | wiki | PG | English poet, scholar, and playwright | ||
| Harwood, Isabella | wiki | ||||
| Haywood, Eliza Fowler | wiki | PG | long career writing in many genres | ||
| Helme, Elizabeth | wiki | PG | educational writer who translated two children's plays | ||
| Hemans, Felicia | wiki | PG | primarily a poet; some verse drama | ||
| Hill, Philippina | wiki | PG | poet and author of one produced play | ||
| Hofland, Barbara | wiki | PG | prolific writer who published one volume of dramas for children | ||
| Holcroft, Frances | wiki | PG | poet, novelist, translator of plays | ||
| Holford, Margaret (the elder) | wiki | PG | one play produced | ||
| Holford, Margaret (the younger) | wiki | PG | one play, neither published nor produced | ||
| Hook, Harriet Horncastle | wiki | PG | author of one comic opera | ||
| Hoper, Rachael | wiki | PG | three plays produced | ||
| Hornby, Mary | wiki | PG | two plays, neither produced | ||
| Hughes, Anne | wiki | PG | novelist and poet who wrote Moral dramas intended for private representation (1790) | ||
| Hull, Elizabeth Edmead | wiki | PG | The Events of the Day (prod. Norwich, 1795) | ||
| Inchbald, Elizabeth | wiki | PG | widely published in various genres | ||
| Isdell, Sarah | wiki | PG | two plays produced but not printed | ||
| Kemble, Maria Theresa | wiki | PG | actor, singer, dancer, and comic playwright | ||
| Kennedy, Grace | wiki | PG | writer on religious subjects who wrote one drama, not performed | ||
| Killigrew, Anne | wiki | PG | "A Pastoral Dialogue" published in Poems (1686) | ||
| La Roche-Guilhem, Anne de | wiki | PG | wrote Rare on tout (1677), a masque for Charles II | ||
| Latter, Mary | wiki | PG | one tragedy produced | ||
| Lawrence, Rose D'Aguilar | wiki | PG | poet and author of one play, not performed | ||
| Le Fanu, Alicia Sheridan | wiki | PG | Irish author of one comedy | ||
| Leadbeater, Mary | wiki | PG | Irish Quaker author whose work included dramatic dialogues | ||
| Leapor, Mary | wiki | PG | English poet who wrote one tragedy, not produced | ||
| Lee, Harriet | wiki | PG | playwright | ||
| Lee, Sophia | wiki | PG | playwright | ||
| Lennox, Charlotte | wiki | PG | Scottish novelist, playwright, and poet | ||
| Lumley, Jane | wiki | PG | first translator of Euripides into English | ||
| M'Taggart, Ann Hamilton | wiki | PG | published playwright, none produced | ||
| Macauley, Elizabeth | wiki | PG | actor and author | ||
| Manley, Delarivier | Manley, De la Rivière
Manley, Mary |
wiki | PG | playwright; one of "the fair triumvirate of wit" | |
| Marks, Jeannette Augustus | |||||
| McCarthy, Charlotte | wiki | PG | Irish novelist and religious writer who wrote one dramatic dialogue | ||
| Metcalfe, Catherine | wiki | PG | one tragedy | ||
| Minton, Ann | wiki | PG | A Wife to be Lett; or, The Miser Cured (1802) | ||
| Mitford, Mary Russell | wiki | PG | playwright | ||
| Montagu, Mary Wortley | wiki | PG | prolific writer whose comedy, Simplicity, was not produced | ||
| More, Hannah | wiki | PG | playwright; published in many genres | ||
| Nooth, Charlotte | wiki | PG | poet who published one play | ||
| O'Brien, Mary | wiki | PG | Irish poet and playwright | ||
| Opie, Amelia | wiki | PG | English abolitionist and writer, mainly of novels and poetry | ||
| Owenson, Olivia | Lady Clarke | wiki | PG | Irish poet and dramatist | |
| Owenson, Sydney | Lady Morgan | wiki | PG | Irish writer known mainly for novels | |
| Parsons, Eliza | wiki | PG | prolific Gothic novelist; one play produced | ||
| Penny, Anne | wiki | PG | Welsh poet and author of one dramatic entertainment | ||
| Petrova, Olga | |||||
| Phelps, Pauline | |||||
| Philips, Katherine | wiki | PG | poet; author of two plays (one unfinished) | ||
| Pilkington, Laetitia | wiki | PG | Anglo-Irish poet; one play produced | ||
| Pinchard, Elizabeth | wiki | PG | novelist; wrote dramatic dialogues for young readers | ||
| Piozzi, Hester Thrale | wiki | PG | author and patron; two unpublished plays | ||
| Pix, Mary | wiki | PG | playwright | ||
| Plowden, Francis | wiki | PG | author of one comic opera | ||
| Plumptre, Annabella | wiki | PG | collaborated with her sister, Anne Plumptre | ||
| Plumptre, Anne | wiki | PG | wrote primarily in other genres; translated dramas | ||
| Polack, Elizabeth | wiki | PG | author of five plays, three extant | ||
| Polwheele, Elizabeth | wiki | PG | two plays extant | ||
| Pope, Jane | wiki | PG | English actor; one comedy produced, 1767 | ||
| Porter, Anna Maria | wiki | PG | poet and novelist whose The Fair Fugitives was produced in 1803 | ||
| Porter, Jane | wiki | PG | two plays | ||
| Pye, Jael | wiki | PG | published four works, each in a different genre | ||
| Richardson, Elizabeth | wiki | PG | author of The double deception; or, lovers perplex'd | ||
| Richardson, Sarah Watts | wiki | PG | poet, novelist, playwright | ||
| Robe, Jane | wiki | PG | author of The Fatal Legacy (1723) | ||
| Roberts, Rose | wiki | PG | translator, poet, and writer of sermons who wrote at least one drama | ||
| Robertson, Fanny | wiki | PG | actor-manager, author of at least two plays | ||
| Robinson, Mary | wiki | PG | wrote primarily in other genres; one play produced | ||
| Ross, Anna | wiki | PG | performer; wrote comic opera | ||
| Rowson, Susanna | wiki | PG | British-American novelist, poet, playwright | ||
| Ryves, Elizabeth | wiki | PG | Irish poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and translator | ||
| Sanders, Charlotte Elizabeth | wiki | PG | wrote plays for young readers | ||
| Satchell, Elizabeth | wiki | PG | actor; one pastoral produced | ||
| Scott, Jane | wiki | PG | theatre manager, actor, and prolific playwright | ||
| Serres, Olivia | wiki | PG | published Flights of Fancy: Consisting of Miscellaneous Poems. With the Castle of Avola, an Opera, in Three Acts. London: J. Ridgway, 1805. | ||
| Shakespear, Olivia | wiki | PG | |||
| Sheridan, Elizabeth | wiki | PG | wrote one play, since lost | ||
| Sheridan, Frances | wiki | PG | playwright | ||
| Short, Marion | |||||
| Short, Mrs. C. | wiki | PG | Dramas for the Use of Young Ladies (1792) | ||
| Sidney, Mary | wiki | PG | translated one play | ||
| Smith, Charlotte | wiki | PG | novelist and poet; one comedy attributed to her | ||
| Starke, Mariana | wiki | PG | author of four plays, not all produced; mainly a travel writer | ||
| Stratford, Agnes | wiki | PG | one tragedy, published but not produced | ||
| Sutton, Katherine of | wiki | PG | abbess who rewrote several mystery plays; considered England's first woman playwright | ||
| Tollet, Elizabeth | wiki | PG | Susanna; or innocence preserved, in Poems on several occasions (1755; not produced) | ||
| Trimmer, Sarah | wiki | PG | prolific educational writer; author of The little hermit; or, the rural adventure (1788; not produced) | ||
| Trotter, Catherine | wiki | PG | playwright | ||
| Turner, Margaret | wiki | PG | pastoral | ||
| Waddell, Helen | wiki | PG | |||
| Wallace, Eglantine | wiki | PG | comedies and tragedy | ||
| West, Jane | wiki | PG | wrote primarily in other genres | ||
| Wharton, Anne | wiki | PG | poet and verse dramatist | ||
| Whitlock, Elizabeth | wiki | PG | known mainly for acting | ||
| Wilcox, Constance | wiki | PG | |||
| Wilcox, Helen | |||||
| Wilson, Ann | wiki | PG | Jephthah's daughter (1783; not produced) | ||
| Wiseman, Jane | wiki | PG | author of one produced play | ||
| Wroth, Mary | wiki | PG | primarily a poet; one drama extant | ||
| Yearsley, Ann | wiki | PG | primarily a poet; produced and published one play | ||
| Yorke, Elizabeth | Countess of Hardwicke | wiki | PG | playwright |