Alice L. De Vine

Alice L. De Vine is a little-known author associated with A dramatization of Longfellow's Hiawatha: A spectacular drama in six acts. The work was entered in 1895 and presents itself as a reworking of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem for the stage, with De Vine credited as the person who rewrote, revised, arranged, and dramatized it.

Reliable public information about De Vine’s life appears to be very limited. In the sources I could confirm, Project Gutenberg lists only this one work under her name, which makes her an especially obscure figure in literary history.

That scarcity makes De Vine interesting in her own right: she is remembered not through a large body of books, but through one ambitious theatrical adaptation that aimed for spectacle, ceremony, and broad popular appeal.