Githa Sowerby

A feminist, she was well-known during the early twentieth century for her 1912 hit play Rutherford & Son, but lapsed into obscurity in later decades.

A biography of Sowerby by Pat Riley, Looking for Githa, appeared in 2009, with a revised edition in 2019.

[1] Literary critic Barrett Harper Clark, writing in 1915, declared it "among the most powerful works of the younger generation".

[6] It was also produced in Canada and Australia, and translated into numerous other languages,[1] including German, French, Italian, Russian, and Bohemian.

[5] Sowerby's writing was compared to Henrik Ibsen's at that point, while known only by the gender-neutral initials "G. K."[7]