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Helen C. Clifford
Best known for light stage comedies from the early 1900s, this playwright wrote lively works built around social mix-ups, ambition, and domestic humor. Her plays offer a quick glimpse of popular American theater in that era.
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Alice's blighted profession : A sketch for girls
by Helen C. Clifford
About the author
Helen C. Clifford was an American playwright whose surviving works point to a career in popular early-20th-century stage comedy. Titles associated with her include Alice's Blighted Profession, Wait and See, Whose Widow, and That Parlor Maid.
The work that is easiest to confirm today is Alice's Blighted Profession: A Sketch for Girls, which is available through Project Gutenberg. It presents a comic story about a young woman lawyer in New York, suggesting that Clifford was interested in writing witty, accessible plays about modern social roles and everyday expectations.
Reliable biographical details about her life appear to be scarce in the sources I could confirm, so it is safer to focus on the plays themselves than to overstate her background. Even with limited personal information, her work still stands as part of the lively tradition of short comic theater written for readers, amateurs, and small productions.