John Luther Long (January 1, 1861 – October 31, 1927) was an American lawyer and writer best known for his short story "Madame Butterfly", which was based on the recollections of his sister, Jennie Correll, who had been to Japan with her husband—a Methodistmissionary.[1]
Born in Hanover, Pennsylvania, Long had been admitted to the bar in Philadelphia on October 29, 1881, and become a practicing lawyer. On January 17, 1882, he married Mary Jane Sprenkle. He died at age 66 on October 31, 1927, having spent the last two months of his life at a sanatorium in Clifton Springs, New York. The obituary in The New York Times of November 1, 1927, quoted his own interpretation of himself as "a sentimentalist, and a feminist and proud of it".[1]
Works by John Luther Long at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
Madame Butterfly, The Century Volume 55 Issue 3 (Jan 1898) pp. 374–393
Madame Butterfly with photogravure illustrations by C. Yarnall Abbott (1870–1938)
David Belasco's Play Madame Butterfly, A Tragedy of Japan (from "Six Plays" Little, Brown 1928)
John Luther Long, American Studies at The University of Virginia.
October 24, 2023
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