List of early-modern British women playwrights

This table lists women playwrights who were active in England and Wales, and the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, before the Victorian era, with a brief indication of productivity or other significant information. The entries may be reordered to browse by name or date. Authors of dramatic works are the focus of this list, though many of these writers worked in more than one genre.

Playwrights

See also

• List of biographical dictionaries of women writers in English
• List of early-modern British women novelists
• List of early-modern British women poets
• List of female poets
• List of feminist poets
• List of playwrights
• List of playwrights by nationality and date of birth
• List of women rhetoricians
• List of women writers
• Women Writers Project
• Women's writing (literary category)

Notes and references

Notes

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)
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: OUP, 2004.
• Robertson, Fiona, ed. Women's Writing, 1778–1838. Oxford: OUP, 2001. ()
• Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter. An encyclopedia of British women writers. Rutgers University Press, 1998. ()
• Todd, Janet, ed. British Women Writers: a critical reference guide. London: Routledge, 1989. ()

External links

• Bibliography of Early Modern Women Writers That Are In Print
• British Women Playwrights around 1800
• The Brown University Women Writers Project
• A Celebration of Women Writers
• Emory Women Writers Resource Project
• Images of Early Modern, 20th and 21st Century British Female Playwrights
• List of biographical dictionaries, with a focus on 17thc women writers
• London Theater People - 1660–1800
• Luminarium
• The Perdita Project
• The Restoration Comedy Project
• Romantic Circles
• Women Romantic-Era Writers
• The Women Writers Archive: Early Modern Women Writers Online