Susanna Centlivre (1680 - 1723)

Susanna Centlivre (c. 1669 (baptised) – 1 December 1723), born Susanna Freeman and also known professionally as Susanna Carroll, was an English poet, actress, and "the most successful female playwright of the eighteenth century". During a long career at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, she became known as the second woman of the English stage, after Aphra Behn.