Glaspell, Susan. (1876-1948). American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actress, novelist and journalist. - Typed Letter Signed by Susan Glaspell Regarding the Premiere of Her Play "the Comic Artist".

Provincetown, MA: June 25, [1928]. [1928]. - Quarto [approximately 11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide]. Approximately 268 typed words filling one side of a sheet of cream stock. Signed "Susan Glaspell" with a handwritten P.S. The edges of the sheet are slightly darkened. Folded 3 times for mailing. Together with the original mailing envelope. Very good.

A splendid letter to actor Morgan Farley who had just opened, playing the part of Karl Rolf, in "The Comic Artist", a play by Glaspell and her husband Norman Matson, at the Strand Theatre, London. "Norman and I were so happy to have your letter, and know you were to play Karl. We always thought of you for it, but you were very much occupied at the time, so we did not venture to hope for you. How we should love to have been in London last night and seen you and the play and the audience. / I'd love a line telling how things went. Yours is a first production of the play, so we've never seen it.."

Susan Glaspell was a most remarkable woman, whose work and reputation were almost lost for many years but who is now being reassessed as a pioneering feminist writer and America's first important modern female playwright. With her husband George Cram Cook, she founded the Provincetown Players, and is credited with discovering the work of Eugene O'Neill. She was a widely published and admired novelist and, though untrained, was hailed by Jacques Copeau as "a truly great actress". After George Cook died, she was romantically involved for eight years with the younger writer Norman Matson, credited as co-author of "The Comic Artist". She wrote many plays, including "Alison's House", for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1931. After her relationship with Norman Matson ended, she fell into depression and alcoholism and died of pneumonia in 1948.

A rare letter. Very good .

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