Valerie pascale roger hanin biography

1Women playwrights have always been an important creative force in Scottish theatre, and though they may have been in minority, their voices rose above the social constrictions of the society they lived in. In the past centuries, many wrote anonymously, mostly for family entertainment, but there were also those who had their plays published either under their own name or a pseudonym. One only has to remember Joanna Baillie (), native of Bothwell in Lanarkshire, whose historio-biographical play De Montford was produced at Drury Lane in , with Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble in the main roles. A century later, the authors such as Naomi Mitchison (), Ada F. Kay (aka A. J. Stewart) and Ena Lamont Stewart () were hailed as representatives of a small but significant number of women dramatists whose work focused on the positionality of women in family and society at large. These dramatists wrote about domesticity, femininity and gender struggle in predominately patriarchal Scottish society long before early feminist movements began to identify and systematise their ideological agendas

2Out of the three, Naomi Mitchison is better known as a novelist and a poet, however, she also wrote plays which nowadays often take the back seat to her other writing output. Like m

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