List of early-modern women playwrights (UK)

This is a chronological list of women playwrights who were active in the United Kingdom before approximately 1800, with a brief indication of productivity. (NB. Drama is the focus of this list, though many of these writers worked in more than one genre.)

Aphra Behn, Restoration playwright, by Mary Beale

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Playwrights

See also

References

  • Blain, Virginia, et al., eds. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1990.
  • Buck, Claire, ed.The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature. Prentice Hall, 1992.
  • Chadwyck-Healey Database of English Prose Drama (through 1750) and (1750–1939)
  • Greer, Germaine, ed. Kissing the Rod: an anthology of seventeenth-century women's verse. Farrar Staus Giroux, 1988.
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: OUP, 2004.
  • Todd, Janet, ed. British Women Writers: a critical reference guide. London: Routledge, 1989.
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