16 Facts About Susanna Centlivre

Susanna Centlivre's father was a dissenter and a parliamentarian; as a result, the family certainly faced persecution at the Restoration.

The romanticized version has Susanna Centlivre found weeping by the roadside by Anthony Hammond, a student at St John's College, Cambridge.

Susanna Centlivre kept the name Carroll until her next marriage.

Susanna Centlivre's body was buried three days after her death in St Paul's, Covent Garden.

The sequel reflects Susanna Centlivre's continuing interest in politics, specifically the battle between Whig and Tory.

Once again, Susanna Centlivre turned to poetry with a complimentary poem on the recovery of the Duke of Newcastle's daughter.

In 1713, after moving into a new home in Buckingham Court, Susanna Centlivre wrote two poems.

Susanna Centlivre dedicated the play to the then Duke of Cambridge.

In 1716, as a response to a Whig leader's illness and subsequent retirement, Susanna Centlivre contributed a poem to a small publication entitled State Poems.

Susanna Centlivre followed this with a series of poems in response to the political climate of the time.

Susanna Centlivre published a poem, entitled "An Epistle from a Lady of Great Britain to the King of Sweden, on the intended Invasion," in response to Charles's threats.

Susanna Centlivre reflected positively on England's political, economic, and juridical systems.

Susanna Centlivre's plays were often concerned with a theme of liberty within the areas of marriage and citizenry.

Susanna Centlivre was anti-Catholic, as is shown by some of her play dedications, prologues and epilogues.

Susanna Centlivre's plays were popular with audiences but less so with literary critics such as William Hazlitt who wrote condescendingly of them.

Susanna Centlivre assumed that she had helped with Edmund Curll's anti-Catholic pamphlet The Catholic Poet: or, Protestant Barnaby's Sorrowful Lamentation.