[1] Her uncle Charles Leonard Fletcher was a playwright in New York City, and ran an acting school there.

[6] She adapted her military comedy A Bachelor's Baby for the stage, and it was produced in Tennessee and Washington in 1895,[7][8] and on Broadway in 1897.

Olga Nethersole was cast to star in her play Yvolna (1898), based on Salammbo by Flaubert.

[9][10][11] Beyond fiction and plays, Fletcher's 1891 essay on the South Carolina lowlands is still cited as a useful first-hand account of the region a generation after the American Civil War.

[23] The credited playwright, Francis Wilson, claimed that the works only shared a title.