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Despite being credited as the first woman to have an original play performed on the professional London stage, Frances Boothby (fl. 1669–1670) remains little more than a footnote to her more famous contemporary Aphra Behn. Her only known surviving works are a play, Marcelia, or, The Treacherous Friend, and a poem, “To my most honord Cosen Mrs Somerset on the unjust censure upon my poore Marcelia.”
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Senkiw, A.L. (2021). Boothby, Frances. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01537-4_151-1
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