In an 1895 Journal article, Cather reviewed Belasco's Men and Women.
In an 1897 Leader article, Cather compares Belasco's The Wife to his Men and Women: "To me, this change in Miss Trueman's affections has very much the same disastrous effect that the fact of the hero's actual criminality has in Men and Women. Yet of the two plays, the situations in The Wife are not so forced, the characters are more human, and are not so entirely given over to the baleful influence of YMCA emotions."