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Lucile Rutland
A New Orleans writer and poet with a flair for drama, she published poems, stories, essays, and plays that reached readers well beyond her home city. Her work ranges from magazine verse to historical theater, including the play Lafitte.
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Lafitte, a play in prologue and four acts
by Lucile Rutland, Lucie Levéque Ayres
About the author
Active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Lucile Rutland was a Louisiana-based author whose writing appeared in newspapers and magazines as well as on the stage. Reliable records gathered here show her associated with poetry, short fiction, essays, editorials, and drama, suggesting a career that moved easily across forms.
Her best-known surviving book credit is Lafitte, a play in prologue and four acts, written with Lucie Leveque Ayres and preserved today through Project Gutenberg. Book listings also connect her with Light O' Love; A Play in One Act, reinforcing her place as a playwright as well as a poet.
Modern local-history research describes her as a longtime Covington resident and notes that she was still remembered in 1938 as a widely published writer and poet. While many details of her life remain hard to confirm, the record that does survive shows a versatile literary figure whose work was part of the rich print culture of her time.