Meet the Mothers of Modern Drama and the Plays they Wrote...
(Clockwise from upper left)
- Hasegawa Shigure, Wavering Traces (1911) Japan
- Marie Leneru, Woman Triumphant (1914) France
- Marita Bonner, The Purple Flower (1928) U.S.A.
- Elizabeth Robins, Votes for Women (1907) England
- Djuna Barnes, The Dove (1923) U.S.A.
- Amelia Rosselli, Her Soul (1901) Italy
- Hella Wuolijoki, Hulda Juurakko (1937) Finland (photo shows the actress playing Hulda)
- Anne Charlotte Leffler Edgren, True Women (1883) Sweden
- Zinaida Gippius, Sacred Blood (1901) Russia
- Alfonsina Storni, The Master of the World (1927) Argentina
- Elsa Bernstein (Ernst Rosmer), Maria Arndt (1908) Germany
- Rachilde (Marguerite Eymery), The Crystal Spider (1892) France (not pictured)
Recognize any of these names?
Probably not. Yet, many of these women were celebrated playwrights in their own time. Some of their names appeared--briefly--in literary and theatre histories in Germany, France, England. But eventually, their works dropped from sight. How did this happen? How could the work of 4,700 women playwrights in England and the U.S.--to name only two nations--be mislaid?
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