Lulu Bett keeps house unpaid for her sister Ina and Ina’s pompous husband Dwight Deacon, who makes the same jokes at supper every night and treats her as a servant. When Dwight’s brother Ninian arrives from his travels, an impulsive episode sends Lulu out of the house and into a life she starts to claim for herself.
A small-town classic of 1920 whose stage version made Gale the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Download the free EPUB.