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HELEN LOUISE COHEN
Helen Louise Cohen (1882-1957) was an editor, literary critic, and educator. Educated at Barnard and Columbia, Cohen taught high school, lectured at Columbia University Extension School, and taught summer school at Johns Hopkins University in 1924 and at Pennsylvania State College in 1929. Cohen edited four collections of plays throughout the 1920s as well as a work of literary criticism, Lyric Forms From France: Their History and Their Use, in 1922. Her connection to the bookshop is likely through Christopher Morley. According to Helen McKelvey Oakley, Cohen met Morley when he spoke to a high school English class.
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Creator: Cohen, Helen Louise, 1882-1957 (Editor)
Title: Dust jacket from More One-Act Plays by Modern Authors
Description: Designed by art classes from Washington Irving High School
Imprint: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927
Item Date: 1927
Material Type: Monographs
ADA Caption: Dust jacket from More One-Act Plays by Modern Authors
Curatorial Department: Book Collection
Collection Name: Rare Books Collection
Stack Location: PR 1272 C63
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The dust jacket of Helen Louise Cohen's More One-Act Plays by Modern Authors (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927)
This dust jacket was designed by art students at Washington Irving High School, where Cohen was the head of the English department and deputy principal. Christopher Morley's one-act play Good Theatre appears in the book.