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GITHA SOWERBY
RUTHERFORD AND SON
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women s rights women who claim
for their sex the most wonderful things
in the way of creative achievement, will
find it difficult to explain the fact that
until the author of
"
Rutherford and Son
"
made
her appearance, no country had produced a single
woman dramatist of note.
That is the more remarkable because woman
has since time immemorial been a leading figure in
histrionic art. Rachel, Sarah Bernhardt, Elea-
nore Duse, and scores of others have had few male
peers.
It can hardly be that woman is merely a repro
ducer and not a creator. We have but to recall
such creative artists as Charlotte and Emily
Bronte, George Sand, George Eliot, Mary Woll-
stonecraft, Marie Bashkirtshev, Rosa Bonheur,
Sophia Kovalevskaya and a host of others, to ap
preciate that woman has been a creative factor in
literature, art and science. Not so in the drama,
so far the stronghold exclusively of men.
It is therefore an event for a woman to come
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