Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland

Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland ( born September 15, 1855 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, † December 24, 1908 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American journalist and writer.

Life

Sutherland was a daughter of the merchant James Baker and his wife Rachel Greenleaf. The first part of her school, she studied in her hometown, later she attended a finishing school in Geneva ( Switzerland ). Her first literary efforts dating already from that time. Her essay "What is a gentleman? " Was published in one of the first issues of the magazine St. Nicholas Magazine and also awarded.

With nearly 24 years Sutherland married on March 10, 1879 her childhood friend, the physician John Preston Sutherland. the next ten years she worked as a journalist ( most often as a theater and art critic ) for various newspapers and magazines in the Boston area. When her own literary creation by the audience as was well received by the official critics, she gave up her job and devoted himself from 1890 onwards only to writing.

With 53 years Sutherland died of the burns she had suffered at home in an accident with a gas oven.

Reception

Under the pseudonym Dorothy Lundt published from 1890 a series of smaller plays, all of which were staged and most were also very successful. Influenced by her parents' home, they often thematized this slavery and its abolition. For some of her pieces she could secure the cooperation known writer - colleagues assure: "The Story of Fort Frayne " was created in collaboration with General Charles King and the play " Monsieur Beaucaire " helped her the author of the literary work, Booth Tarkington, to dramatize his novel of the same name. Some pieces were also co-produced with her friend and colleague, Beulah Marie Dix.

Works (selection)

• Drifting. Comedy in one act. 1892 ( together with Emma Sheridan Fry).
• In office hours and other sketches for vaudeville or private acting. Baker, Boston, Mass.. 1900 ( Content: In office hours, A quilting party in the Thirties, In Aunt Chloe 's cabin and The story of a famous wedding )
• Monsieur Beaucaire. In 1901.
• Po ' white trash and othe one- act- plays. Core Collection Books, Great Neck, N. Y. 1977 ( Nachdr d ed New York 1900).
• The road to yesterday. In 1906.
• Rose O'Plymouth Town. In 1902.