ARE WOMEN NATURAL DRAMATISTS?

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12648, 7 January 1904, Page 4

ARE WOMEN NATURAL DRAMATISTS?

The “Lady” says: Ever since women have taken their place among the freelances of literature there havo been women dramatists in England, though they may not at all times have been so numerous or, fin anc ’ a "y speaking, at any rate, so successful as they are today. That they should write plays is only natural, as most women are piore dramatic in their instincts than men, their perceptions are almost invariably quicker, and their grasp of the possibilities of a situation is at the moment often more comprehensive, though they may in practice fail from want of patience and endurance to make the best of the opportunity afforded them. It is, then, curious, not that there should be so many women writing, or who have written, for tfie stage, but that there are not more. Perhaps pne reason is that theatrical managers fight shy of women’s work.