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Best known for light one-act plays, this early 20th-century writer left behind brisk comedies built for the stage. Surviving records are sparse, which gives her work an appealing sense of rediscovery.
by Grace Cooke Strong
Grace Cooke Strong appears to have been an early 20th-century playwright whose surviving published work includes one-act comedies and farces such as The Girl and the Undergraduate, Marrying Belinda, and The Templeton Teapot. Library and catalog records show her work in circulation in that period, with The Girl and the Undergraduate published by The Penn Publishing Company in 1912.
Reliable biographical details about her life are limited in the sources readily available online. Because of that, it is safest to remember her primarily through the plays themselves: short, lively pieces that suggest a writer with a feel for comic timing, social situations, and amateur or small-stage performance.
Project Gutenberg currently lists The Templeton Teapot: A Farce in One Act among her available works, helping keep her name in print for modern readers. No clearly verified portrait image could be confirmed from the sources reviewed.