Joan Kendall Smith

Late in life GS 's daughter, Joan , remembered: All Ma's sisters were jealous of her fame.

Although both were resolved that they did not want children,GS and her husband had one daughter, Joan , born on 23 May 1918 after some years of marriage. Joan later reported that...

The stage directions in this final scene suggest a deadlock or a stand-off: the characters' eyes meet in a long steady look and they sit at the table facing one another as they strike...

GS wrote poetry apart from her verses for children, though little of it is known. Her daughter believed that a poem called To a Woman I Know was addressed to herself, and expressed some deep...

GS wrote her last play, entitled Direct Action. It has not been (in 2010) staged or published. Her biographer, Patricia Riley , discovered the manuscript in a hatbox of memorabilia at the apartment of...