Miss Lulu Bett | On to Realism
In the following essay excerpt, Simonson covers the creation and publication of Miss Lulu Bett, and subsequent critical attention.
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Early in 1919 Zona Gale began sending her new manuscript on its rounds to magazine editors, her cover-letter typically restrained: ‘‘Dear Sir:—I am submitting with this a novelette, ‘Miss Lulu Bett,’ with the hope that it may just possibly be acceptable to you.’’ Six editors rejected it straightaway, even though it could have been run as a magazine serial. Finally Rutger Jewett of D. Appleton Company agreed to publish it as a book.
For the story Zona Gale had taken an episode originally intended for Birth but cut out to shorten the already too...
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