Chester Bailey Fernald (March 18, 1869 – April 10, 1938) also known as C. B. Fernald, was an American writer and playwright.
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History
Fernald was born in Boston
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, Massachusetts. He moved to London, living in Gower Street, W.C.[ sometime around 1915, to be with his son Van Dyke Fernald, who volunteered for the British army. The son died in the War.]
Career
He ventured into the realm of literature and penned several works. His short stories were published in, ''inter alia'' and ''Harper's Magazine
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''.
In August 1918, her play ''The Cat and the Cherub,'' about a street in San Francisco Chinatown in 1905, was played at the Forest Theater in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
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, a production of the Carmel Arts and Crafts Club.
Death
Fernald died in Dover Harbour, South East England
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, believed drowned, after being knocked overboard by the boom of his boat, the auxiliary cutter ''Florence''. His son, J. B. Fernald, had thrown out a rope to him, but to no avail. They had just returned from a voyage to France.
Works
;Books
*''Chinatown Stories''
*''The Cat and the Cherub and other Stories''
*''The White Umbrella''
;Plays
*''The Ghetto''
*''The Love Thief''
*''The Mask and the Face''
*''The Princess in the Cage''[
*''The Day Before the Day'' — "anti-German vitriol"]Mrs Patrick Campbell
Beatrice Rose Stella Tanner (9 February 1865 – 9 April 1940), better known by her stage name Mrs Patrick Campbell or Mrs Pat, was an English stage actress, best known for appearing in plays by Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Shaw and J. M. ...
*''The Cat and the Cherub''
*''98.9''
References
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1869 births
1938 deaths
20th-century American dramatists and playwrights