Marie Leneru (2 June 1875-23 September 1918). Marie was a French Deaf playwright and diarist. After a bout with measles when she was eleven years old, she became DeafBlind, but she regained partial sight later and used a magnifying glass. Her mother continued her education when she became DeafBlind. She was considered the "French Helen Keller". She died from the 1918 Spanish flu outbreak.
She has won awards and recognition for her stories, non-fiction work on historical figures, and plays. Occasionally, she used Antoine Morsain as her pseudonym. Suzanne Lavaud wrote her thesis about Marie and her works. Her plays were performed in Paris, notably Les Affranchis. She wrote anti-war pieces, one called Peace.
Deaf Persons in the Arts and Sciences
Les Sourds-Muets de la Belle Epoque, une communauté en mutation by The life and work of Marie Lenéru. by Marie Leneru by 
Staging Politics and Gender
Order via interlibrary loan. Cecilia Beach examines the political and feminist plays of French playwrights who have largely been overlooked until now. Beach highlights the importance of theatrical endeavors which women perceived as a powerful way to promote political opinions. The author analyzes the work of Louise Michel, Nelly Roussel, Marie Leneru, Vera Starkoff, and Madeline Pelletier and discusses anarchist theatre and forms of social protest theatre at the turn of the century.
War Plays by Women
This anthology consists of ten plays from countries involved in the First World War, including plays from Germany and France never before available in translation. Representing a range of dramatic forms, from radio play to street-epic, from comic sketch to musical, this anthology includes plays from: Gertrude Stein, Muriel Box, Marion Wentworth Craig, Dorothy Hewett, Berta Lask, Marie Leneru, Wendy Lill, Alice Dunbar Nelson, and Christina Reid. Highly successful in their day, these plays demonstrate how women have attempted to use theatre to achieve social change. The collection explores the historical development of theatrical conventions and genres and the historical context of social and gender issues.
Biographical Dictionary of the Great Deaf in France by
Order through interlibrary loan. Publisher is Archives and Culture, 2017, and the information is on p 302. Available for purchase via https://www.archivesetculture.org/product-page/dictionnaire-biographique-des-grands-sourds-en-france
Complete works - Theater I - Marie Lenéru by 
Journal of Marie Leneru
Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s
Order via ILL. Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s offers the first direct evidence that women playwrights helped create the movement known as Modern Drama. It contains twelve plays by women from the Americas, Europe and Asia, spanning a national and stylistic range from Swedish realism to Russian symbolism. Six of these plays are appearing in their first English-language translation. Playwrights include: * Anne-Charlotte Leffler Edgren (Sweden) * Amelai Pincherle Rosselli (Italy) * Elsa Berstein (Germany) * Elizabeth Robins (Britain) * Marie Leneru (France) * Alfonsina Storni (Argentina) * Hella Wuolijoki (Finland) * Hasegawa Shigure (Japan) * Rachilde (France) * Zinaida Gippius (Russia) * Djuna Barnes (USA) * Marita Bonner (USA) This groundbreaking anthology explodes the traditional canon. In these plays, the New Woman represents herself and her crises in all of the styles and genres available to the modern dramatist. Unprecedented in diversity and scope, it is a collection which no scholar, student or lover of modern drama can afford to miss.
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