Josephine Ludlow Palmer

Josephine Ludlow Palmer is credited as the adapter of The Lighting of the Christmas Tree, a one-act play published in 1921 and based on Selma Lagerlöf’s story “The Christmas Guest.” Library and catalog records also credit Annie Longfellow Thorp alongside Palmer for the adaptation, which appeared in the Vassar Series of Plays.

Very little reliable biographical information about Palmer appears to be easily available in major public sources, which suggests she may be remembered mainly through this surviving publication rather than through a larger published body of work. Even so, her name remains attached to a work that helped bring a Scandinavian holiday tale to English-speaking readers and performers.

Because the available sources are so sparse, it is safest to describe Palmer as a dramatist or adapter associated with The Lighting of the Christmas Tree rather than to claim broader details that cannot be confirmed here.