+ Dial 68:804 Je ’20 60w
“It will be interesting to see whether the people who like the somewhat over-sentimental ‘Friendship Village’ stories continue to like Zona Gale as the far from sentimental and exceedingly skilful author of ‘Miss Lulu Bett.’”
+ Ind 103:186 Ag 14 ’20 150w
“Miss Zona Gale has written a thoroughly admirable and thoroughly unpopular book and vindicated at last the promise of her literary beginnings. The work is clear, direct, dry, and full of haunting little implications.”
+ Nation 110:557 Ap 24 ’20 450w
“The book stands as a signal accomplishment in American letters.” C. M. Rourke
+ New Repub 23:315 Ag 11 ’20 420w
“Nothing could well be more astonishing or claim a more ungrudging tribute than Miss Gale’s recent achievement in ‘Miss Lulu Bett.’ This short novel is the result of the most courageous imaginable revision of her entire fictional method. [This] revision of her method has lost her nothing that she ever had, and it has gained her a great deal that one has constantly deplored her lack of.”
+ N Y Evening Post p2 My 1 ’20 1500w
“Lulu Bett herself is an exquisite piece of portrayal. Her development during the course of the events that befall her is logical and natural. To us it seems the best thing Miss Gale has yet done, and more than this, it is a promise of a new type of work from her.”