The following day Miss Lulu Bett settled in for an acclaimed 198-show run at New York’s Belmont Theatre, before going on the road for hundreds of performances nationwide.
Gale adapted her novel into a play, which premiered on December 26th in front of an audience of inmates at Sing Sing Prison. Treated as the “family beast of burden,” she longs to take steps toward independence. It depicts the life of Lulu Bett, a thirty three-year-old woman living in the home of her sister’s husband. At a time when the women’s suffrage amendment was marching toward its eventual ratification, readers were eager to embrace what scholar Deborah Lindsay Williams has called a “self-actualized Cinderella” story. Critics praised the book’s naturalistic dialogue, its critique of small-town conformity, and its relevance. In February of 1920, Wisconsin author Zona Gale published her sixth novel Miss Lulu Bett to great acclaim and popularity.
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