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Gale’s best selling novella Miss Lulu Bett (1920) was the basis for the play of the same name. The play is very faithful to the novella with one notable exception: the novella ends in Lulu’s marriage to Mr. Cornish.

Gale’s novel Birth (1918) was considered by the author to be her best work. Marking Gale’s shift away from writing sentimental novels, it focuses on life in the grim village of Burage, which entraps its residents with its stern provinciality.

The Group (1963), by Mary McCarthy, follows the lives of several women who have just...

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