Rachel Baker Gale

Her father wrote and published parlor plays, comedy speeches, and other popular forms of entertainment.

Gale's brother, Robert Melville Baker (c. 1874 – 1929), grew up to publish sensational novels and plays, and wrote the stories for several silent films, including Flirting with Fate (1916), which featured Douglas Fairbanks.

[2] Gale's sister was Emilie Baker Loring (1864 – 1951), who achieved fame as a best-selling romance writer, first publishing around age 50, and authoring almost 100 novels over the course of her career.

In Amateur Dramas for Parlor Theatricals, Evening Entertainments, and School Exhibitions (1867), George Melville Baker describes parlor plays: "The plots are simple, and easy of comprehension by the most inexperienced amateur.

The stage-directions are carefully noted; no scenery is required; the furniture and properties can be readily supplied; and all of the pieces can be represented in the house or exhibition-hall.

The first play to be published under her name, After Taps, was actually begun by her father, who left it unfinished upon his death in 1890.