Anti-suffrage dramas were also published between the mid 1800s and up to the 1920s. The first playwright to create anti-suffrage plays was William Bentley Fowle, who wrote the one-act play for amateurs, "Women's Rights", published in 1856. Later plays were adapted for the professional stage, such as "The Rights of Man" (1857) by Oliver S. Leland and "Election Day" (1880) by Frank Dumont. Nellie Locke published an anti-suffrage drama in 1896, called "A Victim of Women's Rights". Many anti-suffrage dramas were overtly political and incorporated the use of farce to paint suffragists as "self-absorbed" and "mannish in dress and manner." They also criticized the idea of the New Woman in general and advocated for women and men to occupy separate spheres of influence.