Susanna Centlivre
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Susanna Centlivre, also known professionally as Susanna Carroll, was an English poet, actress, and "the most successful female playwright of the eighteenth century". Centlivre's "pieces continued to b
A mezzotint of Susanna Centlivre by Peter Pelham (1720), based on a painting by D. Fermin
Centlivre's The Busie Body
Title page of Centlivre's A Bold Stroke for a Wife, 1718
Poster for 1807 production of Centlivre's The Wonder: A Woman Keeps A Secret!!!
Elizabeth Griffith
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Elizabeth Griffith was an 18th-century Welsh-born dramatist, fiction writer, essayist and actress, who lived and worked in Ireland.
Elizabeth Griffith
1778 painting of the Blue Stockings Society showing Griffith sitting first from right
The History of Lady Barton, A Novel In Letters