List of early-modern women playwrights (UK)

Playwrights

• Katherine of Sutton : rewrote several mystery plays
• Jane Lumley : first translator of Euripides into English
• Mary Sidney Herbert : translated one play
• Elizabeth Cary : wrote first original play in English by a woman
• Mary Wroth : primarily a poet; one drama extant
• Jane Cavendish : co-authored a pastoral masque with her sister, Elizabeth Egerton
• Margaret Cavendish : author of closet dramas
• Elizabeth Egerton : co-authored a pastoral masque with her sister, Jane Cavendish
• Katherine Philips : mainly a poet; author of two plays
• Aphra Behn : playwright
• Elizabeth Polwheele : two plays extant
• Anne Finch : primarily a poet; author of verse dramas
• Frances Boothby : author of the first original play by a woman to be produced in London
• Delarivier Manley : playwright
• Mary Pix : playwright
• Susannah Centlivre : playwright
• Mary Davys : novelist; produced one play; had another published
• Penelope Aubin : primarily a novelist; had one play produced
• Catherine Trotter : playwright
• Jane Wiseman : author of one produced play
• Mary Wortley Montagu : wrote primarily in other genres
• Eliza Haywood : playwright; wrote primarily in other genres
• Catherine Clive : actress; wrote farces with some success
• Charlotte Charke : playwright/actress/manager
• Charlotte Lennox : wrote primarily in other genres; two plays
• Frances Brooke : primarily a novelist; worked in comic opera
• Frances Sheridan : playwright
• Elizabeth Griffith : playwright
• Charlotte Lennox : playwright; primarily a novelist
• Dorothea Celesia : translated Voltaire's Tancrède
• Hannah Cowley : playwright and poet
• Hannah More : playwright; published in many genres
• Mary Bowes : published one play
• Charlotte Turner Smith : novelist and poet; one comedy attributed to her
• Elizabeth Craven : writer of light plays
• Sophia Lee : playwright.
• Frances Burney : primarily a novelist; author of several plays, only one produced in her lifetime
• Elizabeth Inchbald : playwright
• Ann Yearsley : primarily a poet; produced and published one play
• Hannah Brand : published playwright
• Harriet Lee : playwright
• Mary Robinson : wrote primarily in other genres; one play produced
• Jane West : wrote primarily in other genres
• Anne Plumptre : wrote primarily in other genres; translated dramas
• Elizabeth Kemble : known for acting
• Mariana Starke : author of four plays, not all produced; mainly a travel writer
• Joanna Baillie : prolific playwright
• Barbarina Brand : author of four published plays, one produced
• Frances Burney : published two unproduced tragedies
• Jane Porter : two plays
• Anna Ross, ; comic opera
• Mary Russell Mitford : playwright
• Felicia Hemans : primarily a poet; some verse drama
• Catherine Gore : eleven plays produced
• Catherine Crowe : primarily a fiction writer; two plays, one produced
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning : primarily a poet; one closet drama and one translation
• Elizabeth Polack : author of five plays, three surviving