Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland
Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland ne Baker , was an American journalist, author and playwright.
A sixthgeneration Bostonian, Sutherland was born on September 15, 1855, at Cambridge to James and Rachael Arnold Greenleaf Baker. James Baker was a successful wholesale merchant who was active in the preCivil War antislavery movement and a close friend of Frederick Parker. Sutherland began her education at age three, around the time of her fathers death, attending schools in Boston and later Geneva, Switzerland. While still in her teens she began submitting works to national publications and was among the first to be awarded a prize from the fledgling St. Nicholas Magazine for her essay What is a Gentleman. On March 10, 1879 she married John Preston Sutherland, a young Boston area doctor whom she had known since childhood.
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