Susanna Centlivre (1666 - 1723)

Short name Susanna Centlivre
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First name Susanna
Birth name Centlivre
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Alternative name Susanna Freeman , Susanna Carroll
Date of birth 1666
Date of death 1723
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Place of birth England
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Place(s) of Residence England
Receptions of Susanna Centlivre, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
Title Author Date Type
The Beauties of Biography ~~author (name unknown) 1777 is biography of
Bibliothèque publique Bakhuyzen Hendrick Bakhuyzen (commercial library owner) 1777 lists person
Veilingcatalogus privé-bibliotheek Bousquet Louis Bousquet (private library owner) 1782 lists person
MENTIONED IN: - Lettres européennes (Dutch version 1994) II, 599. - Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992: "Published her plays anonymously because of what she felt was a severe prejudice against women writing for theatre". Cf. - Fidelis Morgan, The Female Wits - Fidelis Morgan & Paddy Lyons, Female Playwrights of the Restoration
Year of birth estimated. She was born wither Rawkins or Freeman, between 1667 and 1677. She is said to have been a strolling player and in her youth dressed as a man and went for a short while to Cambridge University.She appears to have married twice before settling down with the husband who gave her the name Centlivre, who had first seen her when she was playing the role of Alexander the Great in The Rival Queens at Windsor Castle. -- Dramatist, poet, journalist; felt a severe prejudice against women writing for the theater. Was a very successful playwright, earning much money and seeing many successful productions of her plays, which, unlike many of her contemporaries plays, survived her, being frequently performed up till the 20th century.