Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland
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Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland née Baker (1855–1908), was an American journalist, author and playwright.
for her essay "What is a Gentleman?". On March 10, 1879 she married John Preston Sutherland, a young Boston area doctor whom she had known since childhood.
on the military play Ft. Frayne and with Booth Tarkington
on Monsieur Beaucaire. Over the last decade or so of her life, Sutherland would write a number of plays with her close friend Beulah Marie Dix. Their most successful play,The Road to Yesterday, written in 1906, became the genesis for Victor Herbert
's 1924 operetta The Dream Girl. Sutherland continued to contribute short stories and poetry to national magazines throughout her career and in 1894 was awarded first prize in a short story competition sponsored by McClure’s for her army tale, "Dikkon's Dog".
Early life
A sixth-generation Bostonian, Sutherland was born on September 15, 1855, at Cambridge to James and Rachael Arnold Greenleaf Baker. James Baker was a successful wholesale merchant who was active in the pre-Civil War anti-slavery movement and a close friend of Frederick Parker. Sutherland began her education at age three, around the time of her father's death, attending schools in Boston and later Geneva, Switzerland. While still in her teens she began submitting works to national publications and was among the first to be awarded a prize from the fledgling St. Nicholas MagazineSt. Nicholas Magazine
St. Nicholas Magazine was a popular children's magazine, founded by Scribner's in 1873. The first editor was Mary Mapes Dodge, who continued her association with the magazine until her death in 1905. Dodge published work by the country's best writers, including Louisa May Alcott, Francis Hodgson...
for her essay "What is a Gentleman?". On March 10, 1879 she married John Preston Sutherland, a young Boston area doctor whom she had known since childhood.
Career
Sutherland worked for over a decade as an editorial writer and drama critic for several Boston newspapers before she began publishing (as Dorothy Lundt) a series of one-act plays, of which Po' White Trash and Other One Act Plays, produced in 1899, was probably her best known. Sutherland’s early works were often sketches about the struggles of class and race in America. Sutherland collaborated with Charles King (general)Charles King (general)
Charles King was a United States soldier and a distinguished writer.-Biography:...
on the military play Ft. Frayne and with Booth Tarkington
Booth Tarkington
Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams...
on Monsieur Beaucaire. Over the last decade or so of her life, Sutherland would write a number of plays with her close friend Beulah Marie Dix. Their most successful play,The Road to Yesterday, written in 1906, became the genesis for Victor Herbert
Victor Herbert
Victor August Herbert was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I...
's 1924 operetta The Dream Girl. Sutherland continued to contribute short stories and poetry to national magazines throughout her career and in 1894 was awarded first prize in a short story competition sponsored by McClure’s for her army tale, "Dikkon's Dog".