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Hrotsvitha

Alternate Names:

Roswitha
Hroswrta
Hrotsvitha Gandeshemensis
Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim

Gender: Female

Life Dates: c. 935 – c. 1002

Types:

German
Medieval
Nun
Writer
Writer, Plays
Writer, Poetry

Note: considered the first female writer, dramatist, and poet in Germany; and the first Western dramatist since antiquity

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Biographies (5 Total)

A Tenth-Century Dramatist, Roswitha the Nun Author: Alice Kemp Welch . Collection Title: Of Six Mediaeval Women: To Which Is Added a Note on Medieval Gardens. 1903
Hereswytha, Sexburga, Etheldreda, Ermenberga, and Ermenilda Author: Mrs. Matthew Hall . Collection Title: Lives of the Queens of England Before the Norman Conquest. 1843
Hroswrta Author: Julia Kavanagh . Collection Title: Women of Christianity, Exemplary for Acts of Piety and Charity. 1852
Hrotsvitha Author: Mrs. Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield . Collection Title: Portraits and Backgrounds. 1917
Hrotsvitha, A Tenth-Century Nun: the First Woman Playwright Author: Rosamund Gilder . Collection Title: Enter the Actress: The First Women in the Theatre. 1931