![]() According to Wikipedia, Zona Gale was a well-educated and progressive thinker, a politically-active supporter of the cause of women's rights, active in the National Women's Party and the Lucy Stone League (which lobbied for the right of a woman to continue to use her birth-surname after marriage). ![]() While looking for another recording by "Jacquerie", I happened upon Gale's sixth novel, Miss Lulu Bett, written some eight years later in 1920. This unorthodox tale of the festive season was, to me, the breath of fresh air that I had sought, the one seasonal story (among numerous syrupy novels touted as "Christmas-themed") which embodies the truth of love. ![]() I was first impressed by the work of journalist, playwright, and author Zona Gale as I listened to a Librivox recording of her second novel, Christmas A Story (1912) (capably read by one of my favourite Librivox readers, Christine Dufour, aka "Jacquerie"). ![]()
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