Josephine Ludlow Palmer

Josephine Ludlow Palmer is a playwright and adaptor remembered for The Lighting of the Christmas Tree. Project Gutenberg lists her among the authors of that work, and the text itself presents it as part of the Vassar Series of Plays.

The play was written with Annie Longfellow Thorp and adapted from Selma Lagerlöf’s story The Christmas Guest. Its framing in the Vassar series suggests Palmer was connected with Vassar College’s playwriting community, though I could not confirm further biographical details from reliable sources available here.

Because solid personal information about her appears to be scarce online, it seems safest to remember Palmer chiefly through this surviving holiday play and its place in early twentieth-century college theater.