Elizabeth Baker was literally an overnight success in 1909. She went from an “obscure stenographer making five dollars a week” to “one of the most widely discussed playwrights in London” when her first play, CHAINS, had a one-performance “try-out” at the Royal Court in London in 1909. The Times and The Globe both called CHAINS “remarkable.” The next year, Baker’s drama was running in repertory alongside plays by Galsworthy, Barrie, Granville Barker, and Shaw, and was hailed as “the most brilliant and the deepest problem play by a modern British writer since Major Barbara.” — The New Age