Susanna Centlivre
Description
An English poet, actress, and "the most successful female playwright of the eighteenth century" (Wikipedia).
Books
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The works of the celebrated Mrs. Centlivre ; with a new account of her life
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The wonder
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Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, Emma Donoghue's The Wonder - inspired by numerous European and North American cases of 'fasting girls' between the sixteenth century and the twentieth - is a psychological thriller about a child's murder threatening to happen in slow motion before our eyes. Pitting all the seductions of fundamentalism against sense and love, it is a searing examination of what nourishes us, body and soul.