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V. A. (Violet A.) Pearn
A little-known playwright from the early 20th century, she is best remembered for imaginative stage works and collaborations with Algernon Blackwood. Her writing moves between fantasy, spiritual themes, and plays for children.
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Karma: A Re-incarnation Play In Prologue, Epilogue & Three Acts
by Algernon Blackwood, V. A. (Violet A.) Pearn
About the author
V. A. Pearn, also listed as Violet A. Pearn or Violet Pearn, was a playwright whose known work appeared mainly in the 1910s through the 1930s. Surviving catalog records connect her with several plays, including The Invisible Playmate, Their Angels, and stage versions of Through the Looking-Glass.
She is most often linked with Algernon Blackwood. Together they worked on Karma: A Re-incarnation Play (published in 1918), and Pearn also adapted Blackwood's A Prisoner in Fairyland into The Starlight Express, a children's fantasy play that was produced in London in 1915 with music by Edward Elgar.
Very little confirmed biographical detail seems to be widely available about her life, which makes her an intriguing figure for readers interested in overlooked dramatists. What does come through clearly is her taste for theatrical storytelling shaped by wonder, mysticism, and the imaginative world of childhood.