Githa Sowerby
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Standard Name: Sowerby, Githa
Birth Name: Katherine Githa Sowerby
Married Name: Katherine Githa Kendall
Githa Sowerby's first full-length play, Rutherford and Son, was received in 1912 as a work of major importance. After this initial success, however, she produced only a handful of plays, only one more of which reached print. Her plays deftly exploit realist techniques to address social and economic problems, often from a feminist perspective. She began her writing career with a number of books for children (illustrated by her sister
, as well as some plays for young audiences. She also supplied the lyrics for a few songs composed by
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Texts
Sowerby, Githa. Before Breakfast. Samuel French, 1913.
Sowerby, Githa, and Millicent Sowerby. Childhood. Chatto and Windus, 1907.
Sowerby, Githa. Childhood. Duffield and Co. ; Chatto & Windus, 1907.
Sowerby, Githa, and Millicent Sowerby. Little Plays for Little People. Henry Frowde, and Hodder and Stoughton, 1910.
Sowerby, Githa. Little plays for school and home. Hodder and Stoughton, 1912.
Sowerby, Githa, and Millicent Sowerby. Little Stories for Little People. Henry Frowde, and Hodder and Stoughton, 1910.
Sowerby, Githa. Little Stories for Little People. Henry Frowde & Hodder & Stoughton, 1910.
Sowerby, Githa. Rutherford and Son. Sidgwick and Jackson, 1912.
Sowerby, Githa. “Rutherford and Son”. New Woman Plays, edited by Linda Fitzsimmons and Viv Gardner, Methuen, 1991, pp. 133-89.
Sowerby, Githa, and Millicent Sowerby. The Bumbletoes. Chatto and Windus, 1907.
Sowerby, Githa et al. The Gay Book. Artists and Writers Guild, 1935.
Sowerby, Githa et al. The Glad Book. Artists and Writers Guild, 1935.
Sowerby, Githa, and Millicent Sowerby. The Wise Book. J. M. Dent; E. P. Dutton, 1906.