Langdon Elwyn Mitchell

Langdon Elwyn Mitchell (1862- ?) was an American playwright, son of S. Weir Mitchell and grandson of John Kearsley Mitchell. Born in Philadelphia, he studied in Dresden and Paris, attended the Harvard and Columbia law schools, and was admitted to the New York bar in 1886. He wrote under the pen name of John Philip Varley, and his plays include:

• In the Season (London, 1893)
• Becky Sharp (1899), a dramatization of Thackeray's Vanity Fair
• A Kentucky Belle
• Step by Step
• The New Marriage
• The New York Idea (London, 1907)
• The Kreutzer Sonata, adapted from the Yiddish of Jacob Gordin.

• • Books
• Sylvan and Other Poems (1884)
• Poems (1894)
• Love in the Backwoods (1896)

Mitchell became a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)