CS
had moved smoothly from writing one-act plays for the Cotswold Players
to writing them for the first, Chelsea, incarnation of the Greenleaf Players. She wrote a number of plays for performance by the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Constance Smedley
In The Curious HerbalCS
dramatises the genesis of the similarly-titled work by the eighteenth-century illustrator and herbalist Elizabeth Blackwell
. While her husband was in debtors' prison, Blackwell began visiting the botanical gardens in...
Timeline
1737-9: Elizabeth Blackwell (not to be confused with...
Women writers item
1737-9
Elizabeth Blackwell
(not to be confused with the pioneer physician of the same name who flourished a century later) published, first in weekly parts and then in volume form, her Curious Herbal.
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
