Born at Bloomington, Illinois. Graduate of the Illinois State Normal School, Normal, Illinois, 1892.
Miss Crothers directs her plays and sometimes acts in them.
Bibliography
- Criss Cross. 1904.
- The Rector. 1906.
- A Man’s World. 1915.
- The Three of Us. 1916.
- The Herfords. (Quinn, Representative American Plays, under the title He and She, 1917.)
For bibliography of unpublished plays, cf. Cambridge, III (IV), 765.
Studies and Reviews
- Eaton, W. P. At the New Theatre. 1910.
- Moses.
- New Repub. 9 (’16): 217.
- Touchstone, 4 (’18): 25 (portrait).
- World Today, 15 (’08): 729 (portrait).
- See also Book Review Digest, 1915.
Samuel McChord Crothers—essayist.
Born at Oswego, Illinois, 1857. A. B., Wittenberg College, 1873, Princeton, 1874. Studied at Union Theological Seminary, 1874-7, and at Harvard Divinity School, 1881-2. Higher honorary degrees. Ordained Presbyterian minister, 1877. Pastorates in Nevada and California. Became a Unitarian, 1882. Pastor in Brattleboro, Vermont, 1882-6; in St. Paul, Minnesota, 1886-94; and of the First Church, Cambridge, since 1894. Preacher to Harvard University.
Dr. Crothers’s essays are rich with suave and scholarly humor, and are written in a style suggestive of Lamb’s.