Mrs Denvil was a British playwright some of whose plays were produced in the Australian colonies in the nineteenth century.
In her review of Kate Newey's Women's Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain, Nina Auerbach writes that 'Mrs Denvil was a hard-working if anonymous member of a theatrical family. Her actor-manager husband ... became a bankrupt in the 1840s. To keep the precarious family company afloat, Mrs Denvil churned out melodramas for seamy bookings at [London's] East End theatres while her daughters played pantomime fairies'.
Source: Auerbach, Nina. [Review of Women's Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain]. Journal of Victorian Culture 12.1 (Spring 2007): 151-154.
