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Author : Zona Gale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Miss Lulu Bett written by Zona Gale and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Zona Gale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781409943495
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (434 download)
Download or read book Miss Lulu Bett written by Zona Gale and published by . This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zona Gale (1874-1938) was an American writer. Born in Portage, Wisconsin, which she often used as a setting in her writing, she attended Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. Later she entered the University of Wisconsin-Madison, from which she received a Bachelor of Literature degree in 1895, and four years later a Master's degree. After graduation, Gale wrote for newspapers in Milwaukee and New York City. However, before long she gave up journalism to focus on fiction writing. She then published her first novel, Romance Island (1906), and began the very popular series of "Friendship Village" stories. In 1912, Gale moved back to Portage, which she would call home for the rest of her life, although alternating with trips to New York. 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 the same year, Gale took an active role in the creation of the Wisconsin Equal Rights Law, which prohibits discrimination against women.
Author : Zona Gale
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Miss Lulu Bett written by Zona Gale and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale: This novel by Zona Gale tells the story of Lulu Bett, a woman trapped in a stifling domestic situation, caring for her family. The narrative explores themes of women's roles, family dynamics, and the quest for personal fulfillment. Key Aspects of the Novel "Miss Lulu Bett": Character Development: The novel offers a character-driven exploration of Lulu Bett's journey towards self-discovery and independence. Social Commentary: Zona Gale provides commentary on the societal expectations placed on women in the early 20th century and the limitations they faced. Domestic Realism: "Miss Lulu Bett" is a prime example of domestic realism, offering a window into the lives of ordinary individuals grappling with their desires and limitations. Zona Gale (1874-1938) was an American author and playwright known for her works of fiction and drama. "Miss Lulu Bett" earned her the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921, and it remains a significant work in early 20th-century literature.
Author : Zona Gale
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 130474423X
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Miss Lulu Bett: A Play in Three Acts written by Zona Gale and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-12-25 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Miss Lulu Bett is a powerful and often-times moving play of life in a small Wisconsin town. Viewed by her relatives as a characteristic spinster, Lulu finds herself accidentally married to the charming black sheep of the family. Discovering during her honeymoon that her husband is a bigamist, she returns to her small town. However, she refuses to be overwhelmed by the shame and mortification which her overbearing relatives expect her to feel as a result of her plight. Refusing to accept conventional wisdom, she breaks with her past and sets out to forge a new life of her own. Dorothy Parker hailed the play as "truthful" and claimed it was "among the best written plays of the season," a season that included Eugene O'Neill and Pirandello. Set at the dawn of the women's moment, the play is remembered today for breaking new ground in theatrical realism. Theatre Arts Press is proud to present a new acting edition of this classic play.
Author : Zona Gale
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307426904
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Miss Lulu Bett and Selected Stories written by Zona Gale and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lulu Bett lives in a small town with her sister Ina and Ina’s husband Dwight–a dentist who rules his household with self-righteous smugness. The unmarried Lulu has learned that she cannot question her role as chief cook, housekeeper, and gracious presence. But when Dwight’s sophisticated brother Ninian comes to visit, Lulu finds in herself a surprising wit–and the boldness to accept his playful proposal of marriage. Through her appealing, determined heroine, Zona Gale satirically dispatches a sheaf of the social assumptions of her day, from male supremacy to the security of marriage. First published in 1920, Miss Lulu Bett was immediately acclaimed, and went on to become one of two bestselling novels of the year. Together with four of Gale’s short stories–including the O. Henry award-winning “Bridal Pond”–Miss Lulu Bett reflects Gale’s broad progressive interests and the fast-paced, affecting prose which made her one of the most popular writers of her time and a classic American storteller. “A great book . . . the telling is almost incomparable” —Robert Benchley, The World “Eloquent. . . . Miss Lulu Bett is without flaw” —The Atlantic Monthly “It has a narrowly limned beauty. . . . The book stands as a signal accomplishment in American letters” —The New Republic
Author : Zona Gale
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Romance Island written by Zona Gale and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1906 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newspaper reporter St. George sets out for the royal island of Yaque in search of answers to all the mysteries surrounding the Holland family.
Author : Zona Gale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Miss Lulu Bett written by Zona Gale and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unmarried Lulu Bett can't question her role as chief cook and housekeeper in her married sister's home, but when a peripatetic brother-in-law comes to visit, he playfully proposes marriage. Lulu accepts, and the marriage soon reveals its underside, but not before she has tasted freedom.
Author : Carolyn Casey Craig
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786426918
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Women Pulitzer Playwrights written by Carolyn Casey Craig and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2003-12-31 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first century of the coveted Pulitzer Prizes, only 11 women have won the prize for drama: Zona Gale (1921), Susan Glaspell (1931), Zoe Akins (1935), Mary Coyle Chase (1945), Ketti Frings (1958), Beth Henley (1981), Marsha Norma (1983), Wendy Wasserstein (1989), Paula Vogel (1998), Margaret Edson (1999), and Suzan-Lori Parks (2002). This book is about them and their landmark plays, beginning with Gale's Miss Lulu Bett, which championed the unmarried woman forced to work in the home of a married relative, and closing with Parks' controversial Topdog/Underdog, which made her the first black woman to win the prize. Drawn from personal interviews with the playwrights and research from archives and unpublished material, this work shows how the stage art of women has reflected life in the American family and traces a strong thread of feminist history in our culture. Overview chapters set the stage for each playwright and play with sketches of the time period, highlighting the major points of women's experiences in culture, society and the family. Other chapters analyze each play in detail and discuss the playwright's life and opinions. The book also includes a quick history of the Pulitzer Prize and a chapter honoring black female playwrights.
Author : Zona Gale
Publisher : Badger Books LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Miss Lulu Bett written by Zona Gale and published by Badger Books LLC. This book was released on 1994 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After they have been out of print for decades, here in a single volume are two of the best works of Zona Gale, one of the finest women writers of the early 20th century. Miss Lulu Bett and Main Street by Sinclair Lewis were the top two best-selling books of 1920. A dramatic version of Miss Lulu Bett was produced on Broadway and won a Pulitzer Prize. Birth, an emotional story about a troubled family, is viewed by critics as Zona Gale's best work.
Author : Zona Gale
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 338733902X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Miss Lulu Bett written by Zona Gale and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : Judith E. Barlow
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557830081
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Plays by American Women, 1900-1930 written by Judith E. Barlow and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the contributions of women to the American theater and offers the texts of five plays that deal with a sick child, a murdered husband, and family life
Author : Zona Gale
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781500900953
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Miss Lulu Bett written by Zona Gale and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Top 100 Books – Bestsellers - Classic Novels Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale 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. 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. Lulu is unable to see why this should be a less humiliating story, and begins to complain about her circumstances for the first time. She also notices that her teenage niece, Di, is unhappy, and also seems to be trying to use marriage as a way to escape her circumstance. Lulu eventually has to prevent Di from eloping, and is finally inspired to move out of her sister's home and live on her own. Two endings were written for the play, the original as seen in December 1920 (and the ending that won Gale the Pulitzer Prize from Drama; the first woman ever to do so) has Lulu starting a life on her own and undertaking adventures of her own as we hear in her final lines, "Good-by. Good-by, all of you. I'm going I don't know where-to work at I don't know what. But I'm going from choice!" The revised ending is a much less satisfying one, but is more typical and would have been a bit more commercially acceptable and far less challenging to the audiences of the day. In this ending, Ninian shows up in the nick of time just as Lulu decides to go off on her own life to work and live elsewhere. He asks her forgiveness and she agrees saying "I forgave you in Savannah, Georgia."
Author : Zona Gale
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752403020
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Heart's Kindred written by Zona Gale and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Heart's Kindred by Zona Gale
Author : Zona Gale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781521050064
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Miss Lulu Bett written by Zona Gale and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.Zona Gale (1874-1938) was an American author and playwright. She became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921.
Author : Zona Gale
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781503387164
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (871 download)
Download or read book Miss Lulu Bett written by Zona Gale and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-08 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[...] "Some bread and milk!" cried Mrs. Deacon brightly, exploding on "bread." One wondered how she thought of it. "No," said Monona, inflection up, chin the same. She was affecting indifference to, this scene, in which her soul delighted. She twisted her head, bit her lips unconcernedly, and turned her eyes to the remote. There emerged from the fringe of things, where she perpetually hovered, Mrs. Deacon's older sister, Lulu Bett, who was "making her home with us." And that was precisely the case. They were not making her a home, goodness knows. Lulu was the family beast of burden. "Can't I make her a little milk toast?" she asked Mrs. Deacon.[...]".
Author : Zona Gale
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781499560404
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Miss Lulu Bett written by Zona Gale and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An excerpt from Topics, Volume 1-2 [1920]: THE story of "Miss Lulu Bett" is a very real — sometimes pathetically real — sketch of the life of an ordinary middle western family, composed of Mr. and Mrs. Deacon, their two daughters, and Mother Bett and Sister Lulu, who are “making their home" with the Deacons. In return for her home, Lulu fills the role of family drudge; accepts the jibes and elephantine witticisms directed at her by her pompously humorous brother-in-law; pampers the child Monona; endures the superior airs of her married sister; and in general makes the family comfortable, not because of any love or gratitude which she feels for them, but rather from habit, colorless passivity, and failure to realize the possibility of a condition of affairs other than as they are. But into the story strolls stodgy Ninian Deacon, to whom years of travel in South America and the Islands have failed to impart more than a one-candle-power glamour; and Ninian is the instrument whom fate and Zona Gale select to rescue Lulu from the rut of passive acceptance of her lot. It is not a large story, and — it does not pretend to be. It does not force large emotions and grand passions upon people too small to contain them. Lulu Bett does not develop from the family drudge into the butterfly of the emancipated woman; but in very realistic fashion, she is shoved out of an old habit of living and thinking, by chance and trivial circumstance. She is not a pretty woman even though she may have her pretty moments; she is not even always pathetic in an appealing way — she is at times rather a sorry figure of the type that makes you feel rather pained and ashamed; but she is interesting because she is a real person in the process of developing a backbone. And the happy culmination of the story for Lulu, in spite of her goodness rather than because of it, is a satisfying ending. Aside from the interest in Lulu's story, the most notable feature of the book is the cool analysis of the motives for everyday actions; old Mrs. Bett's tantrums are indulged in at great personal inconvenience for the sheer bliss of making the rest of the family uncomfortable; Monona refuses the food offered her at meal time for the pleasure of being in the limelight. It is an interesting study in compelling motives, not flattering to the human race, but quite convincing. "Miss Lulu Bett" is a good story for those who like “that sort of thing", and even for those who don't.
Author : Barbara H. Solomon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101544023
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves and Ghosts written by Barbara H. Solomon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They are the fearful images that have stalked humanity’s nightmares for centuries, supernatural creatures that feast on flesh and haunt the soul, macabre and uncanny beings that frighten and fascinate the imagination. Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves, and Ghosts collects classic stories from literary masters inspired by folklore and mythology who dared to explore the darker side of human nature and crafted tales that defied convention, stirred up controversy, and gave life to a storytelling genre that has endured for generations. With stories by Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Henry James, Anne Sexton, Oscar Wilde, Yvonne Navarro, Fritz Leiber, Ramsey Campbell, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Angela Carter, and others…
