Frances Boothby

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Standard Name: Boothby, Frances
Birth Name: Frances Boothby
Married Name: Mrs F. Boothby
Pseudonym: Arcasia
FB has the distinction of being the sole woman to have a play produced before Aphra Behn , during the first decade of the restored London theatres. Her single extant poem concerns her play. She also left a collection of recipes.
Page of a manuscript cookery book whose ownership inscription reads "Frances Boothby, Her Booke of Cookery, 1660 : Frances Brewster, her book." It is probable that this book was written or compiled by the very early playwright who bore these names.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Gertrude Thimelby
GT 's youngest sister, Constance Aston (later Fowler) , was a letter-writer and a great collector of the manuscripts of her circle. Her collection (now in the Huntington Library ) is treated by the Perdita Project

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Texts

Boothby, Frances. Marcelia; or, The Treacherous Friend. Cademan and Giles Widdowes, 1670.