Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Miss Lulu Bett; An American Comedy Of Manners (1921) By: Zona Gale: This Is The Novel, Written In 1920, And Republished In 1921 Her 1921 DramatizatiISBN13:9781983959455ISBN10:1983959456Author:Gale, Zona (Author)Description:(This is a RePrint) - Zona Gale (August 26, 1874 - December 27, 1938) Was An American Novelist, Short Story Writer, And Playwright She Became The First Woman To Win The Pulitzer Prize For Drama In 1921 Biography: Gale Was Born In Portage, Wisconsin, Which She Often Used As A Setting In Her Writing She Attended Wayland Academy In Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, And Later Entered The University Of Wisconsin, From Which She Received A Bachelor Of Literature Degree In 1895, And Four Years Later A Master's Degree After College, Gale Wrote For Newspapers In Milwaukee And New York City, For Six Years A Visit To Portage In 1903 Proved A Turning Point In Her Literary Life, As Seeing The Sights And Sounds Of Town Life Led Her To Comment That Her 'Old World Was Full Of New Possibilities ' Gale Had Found The Material She Needed For Her Writing, And Returned To Portage In 1904 To Concentrate Full Time On Fiction She Wrote And Published There Until Her 1938 Death, But Made Trips To New York She Published Her First Novel, Romance Island, In 1906, And Began The Very Popular Series Of Friendship Village Stories In 1920, She Published The Novel Miss Lulu Bett, Which Depicts Life In The Midwestern United States She Adapted It As A Play, Which Was Awarded The Pulitzer Prize For Drama In 1921 In Addition To Her Fiction Writing, Gale Was An Active Supporter Of The La Follettes (Robert Sr , Robert Jr And Philip) And Progressive Causes She Was An Active Member Of The National Women's Party, And She Lobbied Extensively For The 1921 Wisconsin Equal Rights Law In The Same Year, She Attended The Founding Meeting (In New York) Of The Lucy Stone League And Became A Member Of Its Executive Committee Her Activism On Behalf Of Women Was Her Way To Help Solve A Problem She Returned To Repeatedly In Her Novels: Women's Frustration At Their Lack Of Opportunities In 1928 At The Age Of Fifty-Four She Married William L Breese, Also Of Portage Zona Gale, Who Was A Frequent Visitor To The Mission Inn Hotel In Riverside, California, Became A Close Friend Of Frank Augustus Miller, The Founder Of The Hotel After Frank Miller Died In 1935 Zona Gale Wrote A Biography Entitled Frank Miller Of Mission Inn A Group Of Rooms On The Fourth Floor Of The Mission Inn Became Known As Authors Row And The Zona Gale Room Is Room 409 Gale Died Of Pneumonia In A Chicago Hospital In 1938 The House She Built For Her Parents In Portage, Now Known As The Zona Gale House, Is Listed On The National Register Of Historic Places Miss Lulu Bett Is A 1920 Novel By American Writer Zona Gale, And Later Adapted For The Stage It Was A Bestseller At The Time Of Its Initial Publication, But Gradually Fell Out Of Favor With Changing Tastes And Social Conditions Plot Summary: The Story Concerns A Woman, Lulu, Who Lives With Her Sister's Family, Essentially Acting As A Servant She Does Not Complain About Her Position, But Is Not Happy When Her Brother-In-Law's Brother, Ninian, Comes To Visit, There Is A Certain Attraction Between Them While Joking Around One Evening They Find Themselves Accidentally Married, Due To The Laws Of The State Requiring Little More Than Wedding Vows To Be Recited While A Magistrate Is In The Room For A Marriage To Count As Legal On Learning This, Ninian And Lulu Decide They Actually Like The Idea Of Being Married, And Choose To Stick With It However, Within A Month, Lulu Is Back Home, Having Discovered That Ninian Was Already Legally Married: 18 Years Prior He Had Wed A Girl Who Left Him After 2 Years, And He Had Actually Forgotten About The Whole Thing Lulu Considers This A Reasonable Story, But Her Brother-In-Law, Dwight, Insists That It Would Be A Humiliation To The Family To Reveal Such A Thing, And Insists That She Tell Everyone Instead That Ninian Grew Bored With Her And Left Her Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date:2018-01-18Weight:0.37 lbsDimensions:0.16'' H x 10'' L x 7.99'' WNumber of Pages:76Language:English
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Book Title: Miss Lulu Bett; an American Comedy of Manners (1921). by: Zona Gale : This Is the Novel, Written in 1920, and Republished in 1921. Her 1921 Dramatization of This Novel Won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. the Novel Was Also Adapted into a Film In 1921
Number of Pages: 76 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: CreateSpace
Topic: General
Item Height: 0.2 in
Publication Year: 2018
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 7.9 Oz
Item Length: 10 in
Author: Zona Gale
Item Width: 8 in
Format: Trade Paperback
