Susanna – first popular female comedic playwright of the 18th century. A time when women were ‘an unsettling novelty’. She was the wife of a royal cook. She wrote at least 16 plays, poetry and humorous letters. She was politically minded and a ‘card carrying Whig’. She was about 54 years old when she died. (http://www.folger.edu)
Susanna wrote: “A Bold Stroke for a Wife”, “The Busy Body” and “The Wonder”
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