Miss Lulu Bett and Stories - Preface

Sep 25, 2026

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Edited compilation featuring Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale along with the stories Dream, The Biography of Blade, The Need, and Bridal Pond. Provides introductory material, editorial context by Barbara H. Solomon and Eileen Panetta, and publication-front matter describing copyrights, reprint permissions, and fiction disclaimer. Includes author and editor biographical notes, Library of Congress cataloging details, and a contents layout listing the works and introduction pages.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryStory & Novel

FormatPDF

Pages228

Reading Time5 h 51 min

AccessFree to download

Introduction

Miss Lulu Bett

Dream

The Biography of Blade

The Need

Bridal Pond

Acknowledgments

"Masterly....Lulu Bett herself isan exquisite pieceof portrayal.”SheNeue %ok Fmes miss lulu bettSE LE CTED STORIES # ZONA GALE E0+ED BY 31232002004770 2006 # WITHDRAD Z ONA GALEMiss Lulu Bett Born in Portage,Wisconsin,in I874,Zona Gale graduated fromthe University of Wisconsin and first worked as a reporter in Mil-waukee and New York City.She achieved a national reputationas a short-story writer in the booming magazine market of theearly twentieth century.Author of eight novels,including Birth(I918)and Faint Perfume(1923)and collections of short stories aswell as plays and poetry,Gale achieved her greatest critical andcommercial success with Miss Lulu Bett,published in I920.Shealso became an eminent social activist and essayist for progressivecauses.She died in Chicago in 1938. Barbara H.Solomon is a professor of English and Women'sStudies at Iona College.Among the books she has edited are TheAwakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin,Herlandand SelectedStories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman,and Once Upon a Childhood:Stories and Memoirs of American Youth(with Eileen Panetta).Shelives in New Rochelle,New York. Eileen Panetta is an associate professor of English at IonaCollege.She is the coeditor of Once Upon a Childhood(with Bar-bara H.Solomon).She lives in New York City. 0 M ISS LULU BET T # and Stories # M I SS LULU BETT and Stories 1 / # ZONA GA LE 11 Edited by Barbara H.Solomon and Eileen Panetta ANCHOR BOOKS A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE,INC. NEW YORK SKOKIE PUBLIC LIBRARY AN ANCHOR BOOKS ORIGINAL,DECEMBER 2005 Introduction and compilation copyright ◎2005byBarbara H.Solomon and Eileen Panetta All rights reserved.Published in the United States by Anchor Books,a division of Random House,Inc.,New York,and in Canadaby Random House of Canada Limited,Toronto. Anchor Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House,Inc. This is a work of fiction.Names,characters,places,and incidents eitherare the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.Any resemblance to actual persons,living or dead,events,or locales is entirely coincidental. Grateful acknowledgment is made to Leslyn Breese Keie for permission toreprint the following:“The Need"and“Bridal Pond,”originally published inBridal Pond(1930),and"The Biography of Blade,"originally published in YellowGentians and Blue(1927).Reprinted by permission of Leslyn Breese Keie. # Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gale,Zona,1874-1938. Miss Lulu Bctt and selected stories/Zona Gale;edited by Barbara H.Solomon and Eileen Panetta. p.cm. I.MissLulu Bett—Dream—The biography of Blade—The need—Bridal pond. 2.Single women—Fiction.3.Housekeepers—Fiction.4.Divorced women—Fiction.5.Self-realization—Fiction.6.Middle West—Fiction. 7.Feminist fiction.I.TitlePS3513.A34 A62005813'.52—dc222005048192 Vintage ISBN-I0:I-4000-9538-7 Vintage ISBN-13:978-I-4000-9538-4 Author photograph ◎Wisconsin Historical SocietyBook design by Debbie Glasserman www.anchorbooks.com Printed in the United States of America 1098765432 I CO N TE NT S Introduction ix Miss Lulu Bett I Dream I 47 The Biography of Blade I68 The Need 174 Bridal Pond I88 Ack nowledgments

FAQs

What works are included in this edited collection?

It includes Miss Lulu Bett and selected stories titled Dream, The Biography of Blade, The Need, and Bridal Pond.

Who edited the compilation?

Barbara H. Solomon and Eileen Panetta edited the volume.

What background information is provided at the beginning?

The front matter contains an introduction section and biographical notes about Zona Gale, along with publication and copyright details.

Sep 25, 2026

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