Böcker av Stephanie Hodgson-Wright

This volume comprises the first and last original plays by women to be printed between 1660 and 1700, "Marcelia" and "The Perjur'd Husband", plus two printed in the 1690s, "She Ventures and He Wins" and "The Unnatural Mother", at a point when women playwrights became a significant force in theatre.

Provides Delarivier Manley's contribution to the literary and theatrical milieu of the late 17th century. This book includes a epistolary novella, letters; a commendatory poem 'To the Author of Agnes de Castro'; a comedy, 'The Lost Lover, or The Jealous Husband', a tragedy, 'The Royal Mischief'; and two commemorative poems.

Originally published in 1613, this is the earliest play to have been written in English by a woman.