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Set in a tense nightlife world shaped by bootlegging, protection, and organized violence, the story follows her relationships with allies who teach her how to navigate the streets and resist police scrutiny. Central conflicts revolve around the authenticity of lived experience, the formation of political conviction, and the emotional costs of oppression as the girl moves from fear toward determined action.","The Girl  \nNovel by  \n# Meridel Le Sueur\n\nWest End Press  \nDigitized by the Internet Archivein 2010  \nhttp://www.archive.org/details/girllesu00lesu  \n# The Girl\n\nNovel byMeridel Le Sueur  \nD  \n2  \nPortions_of this novel have been reprinted separately as shortstories.They include:  \n\"They Follow Us Girls\"in Anvll,July-Aug.,1935.  \n\"Salvation Home'\"in New Masses,Jan.10,1939.  \n\"Sure,Honey!\"in New Anvil,June-July,1939.  \n\"I'm Going I Said\"in New Masses,Jan.9,1940.  \n\"Father of the Earth\"in The Fountain,March 1942.  \nO Prairie Girl Be Lonely\"in New Caravan,1945.  \nReprinted in Cross Section 1947:A Collectlon of NewAmerican Writing,ed.Edwin Seaver,NY,1947.  \nDrawing for The Girl by Bill Norman(1939).Courtesy of theMinnesota Historical Society.  \nFirst printing 1978;second printing 1979;third printing1981;fourth printing (WEP/MEP edition)1982;fifth printing 1985  \nCopyright C1978by Meridel Le Sueur  \nISBN 0-931122-06-6  \nS4.95  \nWest End Press,Box 7232,Minneapolis,MN 55407  \n# Publisher's Note\n\nThis manuscript is itself a testimony to the lifelong energies ofMeridel Le Sueur.The first draft was written in 1939,along with aplay based on the same story,Women of the Earth.AlthoughMeridel was a well-known story writer of that time,the ms.wasrejected by a New York publisher,who claimed the bank robberyscene was inauthentic.Meridel,who based the action on incidentsfrom life,asked the opinion of a local bank robber,who vouchedfor the authenticity of the narrative.His word did her no good,however,with the publisher.  \nLater,sections of the ms.were republished as stories.Theseincluded the award-winning story of the bank robbery and Butch'sdeath,\"O Prairie Girl Be Lonely,\"and a number of shorter storiesfrom the chapters on the girl's pregnancy and her conversion tothe political movement of the time.  \nWhen West End Press decided to publish The Girl in 1977,Meridel put the manuscript through an extensive revision whichvirtually amounted to a rewriting,especially of the beginning andthe end.Her letters,especially during the winter of 1977-8,speakof her joy at rediscovering The Girl,the heat of new creation,andthe support of women around her as she rewrote the story.  \nEditing has amounted to smoothing out the transitionsbetween two vast bodies of language written forty years apart.It isimperfect;but the final account has seemed to us richer by far thanthe earlier version,informed now with the insight of a woman whohas suffered and enjoyed 78 years of passionate struggle for thevery lives of such women as the girl of the story.  \nFor encouragement and early editorial assistance,West EndPress especially thanks Anya Achtenburg,who gave the combinedms.its first reading,and Adelaide Bean,who among othersoffered her assistance as a friend of Meridel's for decades.  \nI might add a word on authenticity.For the last year,I havelived in the midwest;part of it in Minneapolis/St.Paul,where thestory is set,more of it in Kansas and Missouri.I have sat in thesame places,talked and drank with the same people Merideldescribes here.The voices are still here:the fears,the defeats,theoppression,the praises,the victories,the consciousness.Morethan any other writer I have know,Meridel captures the voice ofher people.That is one reason we love her.  \nJohn Crawford  \n(1979)  \nTo Robert Aaron Brownand that dark city of St.Paul  \nAnd for Natalie,Anna,Bernice,Gladys,Doris,Sara,all living,all real,all in need.  \nO that my head was water and mine eyes a flood of tears that Imight weep day and night for the slain of the daughters ofmy people.  \nIs there no balm in Gilead?Is there no physician?Is not the healthof the daughters of my people recovered?  \nThey are broken with a great breath,with a grievous blow.  \nThrough all the land the wounded shall groan.  \nThe harvest is passed and the summer is ended and we are notsaved.  \nThe land is desolate because of the presence of the oppressor.  \nFor the hurt of the daughters of my people,I am hurt.  \nJEREMIAH(adapted)  \n# Chapter ","cbCaipNgB6WurepY","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipNgB6WurepY","pdf",6423312,5,164,"English","en",105,"# Publisher's Note\n# Chapter 1","[{\"question\":\"What does the Publisher's Note emphasize about Meridel Le Sueur and the manuscript of The Girl?\",\"answer\":\"It describes the manuscript as a lifelong effort, initially drafted in 1939, later revised heavily when West End Press chose to publish it. 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