Cecilia Beach received a PhD in French literature from New York University in 1993. In her dissertation, she examined representations of the maternal in works by modern French women playwrights. She is presently working on a checklist of works by French women playwrights in the 20th century.

"Beach's checklist of published and manuscript plays by French women playwrights will be extremely valuable to scholars in women's studies. Extremely valuable is the identification of a holding library for each title. Beach's work will make readers long for more information about these playwrights, many of them prolific and famous in their time, and for an explanation of why they are largely absent from literary history." - Choice

• Preface Codes for library references Sixteenth Century Seventeenth Century Eighteenth Century Nineteenth Century Selected Bibliography Title Index

Cecilia Beach received a PhD in French literature from New York University in 1993. In her dissertation, she examined representations of the maternal in works by modern French women playwrights. She is presently working on a checklist of works by French women playwrights in the 20th century.

"Beach's checklist of published and manuscript plays by French women playwrights will be extremely valuable to scholars in women's studies. Extremely valuable is the identification of a holding library for each title. Beach's work will make readers long for more information about these playwrights, many of them prolific and famous in their time, and for an explanation of why they are largely absent from literary history." - Choice

• Preface Codes for library references Sixteenth Century Seventeenth Century Eighteenth Century Nineteenth Century Selected Bibliography Title Index