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Poor Lulu,
By Bomojaz (South Central PA, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Miss Lulu Bett: Birth (Paperback)
Lulu Bett, 34, lives with her sister and brother-in-law, and they have both turned her into a drudge and taken away her self-esteem and confidence. She hastily marries the brother of her brother-in-law, only to learn he was married before and his wife might still be alive. She leaves him and comes home. The abuse continues, only worse: they won't let her tell people the truth about what happened, making her take on the blame. She eventually builds up courage and leaves, to marry quickly again. This second marriage is a major fault in the book - it's too tacked on and hasty. Gale's tone and focus, though, are sharp.
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A Woman's Journey,
By "gobidos" (Spokane, WA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Miss Lulu Bett. (Hardcover)
This book is a journey for one woman who seems solidly real while surrounded by outlandish characters. There is something to gain in realizing that part of yourself is found in the title character, and something to learn when she takes her own route forward into the world. The book is outdated, but is still modern in its approach to women's place in society. I highly suggest the reading and research of this understated story. The play is also a worthwhile reading, and piques more interest as it adds a revised ending that was more pleasing to the crowd of the 1920's. It is an added interest that Zona Gale (the author of the book as well as the screenplay) is the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for "Miss Lulu Bett." Overall, Zona Gale is an amazing author, as everything she writes, every little word and sentence, was certainly well thought out and was meant to matter. The book is a trip to the past as well as a peek into a woman's part in life.
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Epic Silence in Small-Town Wisconsin,
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Zona Gale's "Miss Lulu Bett" was one of the greatest bestsellers of 1920: this was largely due to its unique style. Gale's prose is very terse: she avoids any kind of effusion, yet her disciplined, minimalistic sentences hint at so much, that there is a huge "weight of the unsaid." This style is appropriate to her subject matter: the lack of communication and the hypocrisy in a typical small town Midwestern family. Her characters always imply more than they say, and their lack of honesty wreaks havoc. Behind their shallow statements lurk desperation and unfulfilled longing. This novel is powerful in its own terse and reticent way.
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At the time of her death in 1938, Zona Gale's life story embodied all of the elements of the stereotypic feminist heroine of the late nineteenth century: After an idyllic childhood in a tranquil Midwestern farming village, Gale earned a graduate degree at the University of Wisconsin, worked as a newspaper reporter in Milwaukee and New York, attained some recognition as a writer of popular novels, and in 1921, earned a Pulitzer Prize for drama. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Miss Arrowsmith, Hellie Copper, Little Platt, Dwight Herbert, Aunt Clauson, Uncle Phoenix, Nick True, Miss Lulu, Bobby Larkin, Flo Buckstaff, Halsey House, Mayme Carbury, Miss Carbury, Aunt Lulu, Henry Bates, Grandma Gates, Bennie Bierce, Zeri Wing, Jack Stubbs, Matt Barber, Barbara Ellsworth, Zen Wing, Arthur Hoey, Holy Grail, Jeffrey Pitt New!
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At the time of her death in 1938, Zona Gale's life story embodied all of the elements of the stereotypic feminist heroine of the late nineteenth century: After an idyllic childhood in a tranquil Midwestern farming village, Gale earned a graduate degree at the University of Wisconsin, worked as a newspaper reporter in Milwaukee and New York, attained some recognition as a writer of popular novels, and in 1921, earned a Pulitzer Prize for drama. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Miss Arrowsmith, Hellie Copper, Little Platt, Dwight Herbert, Aunt Clauson, Uncle Phoenix, Nick True, Miss Lulu, Bobby Larkin, Flo Buckstaff, Halsey House, Mayme Carbury, Miss Carbury, Aunt Lulu, Henry Bates, Grandma Gates, Bennie Bierce, Zeri Wing, Jack Stubbs, Matt Barber, Barbara Ellsworth, Zen Wing, Arthur Hoey, Holy Grail, Jeffrey Pitt New!
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- Not in Sisterhood: Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Zona Gale, and the Politics of Female Authorship by Deborah Lindsay Williams on 25 pages
- Worthy But Neglected: Plays of the Mint Theater Company by Jonathan Bank on 9 pages
- The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Brenda Murphy on 7 pages
- Plays by American Women: 1900-1930 by Judith E. Barlow on 5 pages
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