Olive Tilford Dargan

Olive Tilford Dargan
Olive Tilford Dargan (1869–1968) was an American writer, poet, and playwright known for her works that often explored social justice and women's rights. Born in Kentucky, she wrote both under her own name and the pseudonym Fielding Burke. Her novels, such as "Call Home the Heart" (1932) and "A Stone Came Rolling," focused on labor struggles in the American South and the experiences of working-class women. Dargan's contributions to literature were also recognized through her poetry collections and plays, blending themes of nature, politics, and human endurance.

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THE FLUTTER OF THE GOLDLEAF Scene: Laboratory in the attic of the Warner cottage. At right, toward rear, entrance from down-stairs. A rude partition, left, with door in centre. Window centre rear. Large kitchen table loaded with apparatus. Shelves, similarly loaded, against wall near table, right. Wires strung about. A rude couch, bench, and several wooden chairs. Time, about 8 p.m. Lamp burns on... more...

PATH FLOWERA red-capsang in Bishop's wood,A lark o'er Golder's lane,As I the April pathway trodBound west for Willesden.At foot each tiny blade grew bigAnd taller stood to hear,And every leaf on every twigWas like a little ear.As I too paused, and both ways triedTo catch the rippling rain,—So still, a hare kept at my sideHis tussock of disdain,—Behind me close I heard a step,A soft... more...

ACT I. Scene: Within the tent of Menones, on the plain before Nineveh. Left, centre, entrance to tent from the plain. Curtains rear, forming partition with exits right and left of centre. The same at right, with one exit, centre. Couch rear, between exits. From a tent-pole near exit, right centre, hang helmet and a suit of chain armor. Sola parts curtains rear, left, and looks out, showing effort to... more...