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Lucile Rutland
A New Orleans writer and poet, she left behind plays, poems, and stories that hint at a lively literary life now mostly hidden in old newspapers and magazines. Her work ranges from stage drama to verse, with a spark of curiosity that seems to have reached beyond literature, too.
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Lafitte, a play in prologue and four acts
by Lucile Rutland, Lucie Levéque Ayres
About the author
Lucile Rutland was a writer and poet associated with New Orleans literary life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Surviving records are scattered, but they show a career that included poems, short fiction, and plays published or noticed in periodicals and newspapers of her time.
She is best known today for Lafitte, a play in prologue and four acts, written with Lucie Levéque Ayres, and for Light O' Love; A Play in One Act. References gathered from historical sources also describe her as a nationally known writer and poet, suggesting that her reputation once reached beyond her local scene.
Some later accounts credit her with an interest in the chemistry of paper and with experimenting with alternative papermaking materials, though the surviving evidence is fragmentary. Even with many details of her life still hard to pin down, her published work shows the range of a versatile author who moved comfortably between poetry and drama.