Paula Schwartz (1925-2003) was an American playwright and novelist. Schwartz was the author of 36 Regency romance novels under the pen name Elizabeth Mansfield and of mainstream fiction under the name Paula Reibel, Paula Jonas, and Paula Reid.[1][2]
Schwartz taught drama and English and drama in New York and moved to Washington, D.C. in 1965 where she taught English at Dunbarton College of Holy Cross, Washington, D.C., a women's college. She began to write novels when the college closed in 1973.[1] She lived in Annandale, Virginia.[1][2]
Schwartz's musical, An Accident At Lyme, an adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Persuasion, was staged in Baltimore in 1986 by Theatre Hopkins.[2]
Rachel's Passage; An historical novel set in America at the turn of the 19th century, exploring marital abandonment, marriage, and "criminal conversation" (1998 ISBN0-06-101362-5)
As Paula Jonasedit
To Spite the Devil; An historical novel set in Revolutionary America, in what is now currently one of the boroughs of New York City. (1994 ISBN0-7860-0030-9). This novel is based on the musical The Tory Spinster, by Paula Schwartz and Neil Moyer (1975).[6]
Plays and musicalsedit
Musicalsedit
Schwartz collaborated with composers Neil Moyer and Howard Levetsky on several musical projects.
The Tory Spinster, (with Neil Moyer) a musical set in Revolutionary America, won the Delaware Bicentennial Playwriting Contest, sponsored by the Delaware Theatre Association, and was performed in April and May 1975.[6]
An Accident At Lyme, (with Neil Moyer), a musical adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion[2]
Playsedit
Parcel Pickup, a one-act play published in Dramatics Magazine, 1973
Referencesedit
^ abcd"Paula Schwartz, 78; Romance Novelist". The Washington Post. 25 December 2003. ProQuest 409584453.
^"A Morning Moon". Kirkus. 20 November 1984. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
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^ ab"KCTG - Show Archive". kctg.homestead.com. Retrieved 2020-01-13.
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Elizabeth Mansfield
April 11, 2024
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