History Matters / Celebrating Women's Plays of the Past

May Miller

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Stragglers in the Dust

1930

Nails and Thorns

1933

The heart of a woman falls back with the night, And enters some alien cage in its plight, And tries to forget that it has dreamed of the stars, While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.

-Georgia Douglas Johnson