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. She wrote other screenplays she did not receive credit for. Little is known about her life.

Selected works

Screenplays: * '' The Conspiracy'' (1916) * '' An Up-to-Date Lochinvar'' (1913) * '' The Birth of the Lotus Blossom'' (1912) (uncredited) * '' The Making of a Man'' (1911) (uncredited) Publications: * ''The Photoplay Writer'' (1912)

References

Women film pioneers American women screenwriters American screenwriters American stage actresses Year of birth missing Year of death missing 20th-century American actresses {{US-screen-writer-stub