History Matters / Celebrating Women's Plays of the Past

Susanna Centlivre

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The Busy Body

1709

The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret

1714

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