For the historical character on which this play is based, see Barbara Fritchie. For the silent films, see Barbara Frietchie (1915 film) and Barbara Frietchie (1924 film).
Actress Julia Marlowe in Barbara Frietchie
Illustration of John Greenleaf Whittier's poem "Barbara Frietchie" showing Barbara Fritchie waving the Union flag out of her window.
Barbara Frietchie, The Frederick Girl is a play in four acts by Clyde Fitch and based on the heroine of John Greenleaf Whittier's poem "Barbara Frietchie" (based on a real person: Barbara Fritchie). Fitch takes a good bit of artistic liberty and intertwines her story with that of his own grandparents' love story, which also takes place during the Civil War.
Barbara Stanwyck took her film name from the name of the play, and a British actress named Joan Stanwyck who starred in one of the play's productions, perhaps in London.
An illustrated version of the poem is contained in James Thurber's Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated.
The play met with mixed reviews in 1899 because of the romance he added to the tale, but it would be successfully revived a number of times. Fritchie, a central figure in the history of Frederick, Maryland, has a stop in the town's walking tour at her home. When Winston Churchill passed through Frederick in 1943, he stopped at the house and recited the poem from memory. At 90 years of age she waved the Union flag out of her window despite opposition from Stonewall Jackson's troops, who were passing through Frederick. This event is the subject of the 1864 poem:
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