How to Write Photoplays (1920).
Screenwriting Manuals by Women
Barker, Ellen Frye. The Art of Photoplay Writing. Colossus Publishing, 1917.
——. Successful Photo-Play Writing. New York: Frye Publishing, 1914.
Beranger, Clara. Writing For the Screen, With Story, Picture Treatment and Shooting Script. Dubuque: WM. C. Brown, 1950.
Bertsch, Marguerite. How to Write for Moving Pictures. New York: George H. Doran, 1917.
Carr, Catherine. The Art of Photoplay Writing. New York: Hannis Jordan, 1914.
Corbaley, Kate. Selling Manuscripts in the Photoplay Market. Los Angeles: Palmer Photoplay, 1920.
Emerson, John, and Anita Loos. How to Write Photoplays. New York: McCann, 1920.
Lytton, Grace. Scenario Writing Today. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1921.
Macpherson, Jeanie. The Necessity and Value of Theme in the Photoplay. Los Angeles: Palmer Photoplay, 1920.
Marion, Frances. How to Write and Sell Film Stories. New York: Covici-Friede, 1937.
Parsons, Louella O. How to Write for the “Movies.” Rev. ed. Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1917. Excerpt
Patterson, Frances Taylor. Cinema Craftsmanship. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920.
——. Scenario and Screen. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1928.
Radinoff, Florence. The Photoplaywright’s Handy Text-Book. New York: Manhattan Motion Picture Institute, 1913.
Radnor, Leona. The Photoplay Writer. New York: Leona Radnor, 1913.
Russell, Lillian Case. “Here Lies”: Containing Fifty Themes That Are Now Forbidden, Fifty “Donts,” “Manufactured Plots,” and a Sample Photoplay Complete. New York: M.P. Publishing, 1914.
——. The Photo-playwrights Primer. New York: M.P. Publishing, 1915. St. Johns, Adela Rogers. How to Write a Story and Sell It. Garden City: Doubleday, 1956.