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The play library was reviewed and edited by university professors with a focus in historic plays by women.

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Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein

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Alice Dunbar Nelson
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Rachel Crothers
Rachel Crothers
Rachel Crothers (1878-1958) had nearly 30 plays produced on Broadway between 1906 and 1937; and she directed most of them herself. “In the last 200 years, a respectable number of women have left their mark on American theater, but few of them have had as impressive a career as Rachel Crothers,” wrote the New York Times in 1980, adding “Although it is rare now to find anyone who has heard of her, Miss Crothers at the apex of her career was the symbol of success in the commercial theater.” Born i…
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Mary Powell Burrill
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Mary Powell Burrill
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Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
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Dorothy C. Guinn


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