Word: novels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Literary fame came to Mrs. Sullivan in 1902 with the publication by Harper and Brothers of her novel, "Out of the West", which told the story of the struggle of the grange against the railroads. For 20 years she was a feature writer for Chicago newspapers. Her activities in Chicago awakened her desire for writing of a more creative nature. She came to Cambridge where she studied in the 47 Workshop during the last year of the administration of Professor G. P. Baker '87. "The Strongest Man", her first play, was produced at Agassiz House in 1925, and was published...
...propose to another girl, hears of his death and the story reaches its unnecessarily happy conclusion. Despite the weakening of the last 100 pages, the adolescent anguish of Sheilah Milter is so acutely albeit theatrically probed, that Conflict is undeniably a powerful successor to Author Prouty's famed novel, later cinema, Stella Dallas...
...play is based on the eminently successful novel of the same name by Du Bose Heyward (white). Its central figure is a crippled boy. The theme: his love for a girl intermittently addicted to dope. The third figure of the triangle is a towering black murderer who is choked to death by the cripple's steely fingers in the final...
...Charm School (a novel later dramatized in collaboration with Robert Miltone, Are Women People...
With the exception of the language mentioned, Miss Hough has written a novel with no glaring faults. Neither has it any particular virtue. It is merely pleasant reading for an otherwise dull moment...