Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Asked to name a woman playwright from the Victorian period most of us would struggle. But there were many women involved in the theatre, as actors, as producers and theatre managers, but also as playwrights. I had a little dig around and this is what I could find. If you are more expert on this please share additions or corrections.

Plays mentioned:
Quid Pro Quo by Catherine Gore https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/gore/quid/quid.html
Afternoon by Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramée) catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011201858
Alan's Wife by Florence Bell and Elizabeth Robins https://www.jsu.edu/robinsweb/alan/index.html
Votes for Women by Elizabeth Robins https://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/vwwp/view?docId=VAB7192;chunk.id=d1e631;toc.depth=1;toc.id=;brand=vwwp;doc.view=0;query=
The Mother of Three and The Matchmaker by Clotilde Graves (AKA Clo Graves and Richard Dehan) classicirishplays.com/content/1-playwrights/12-clotilde-graves/a-mother-of-three-by-clotilde-graves-pdf.pdf or catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100503599