This first and only comprehensive collection of the literary achievement of Meridel Le Sueur-artist, journalist, political activist, and feminist-includes her best and most representative fiction, reportage, and autobiography from every decade since the twenties. The New York Times Book Review wrote that this volume "inspires belief in the power of a writer-and a woman-to prevail against poverty, persecution and public neglect...[Le Sueur's] consummate achievement as an artist is her transformation of colloquial speech into musical prose.
In November 1978, West End Press published The Girl, a rewritten version of a novel the author had first completed in 1939. The original story told of women struggling to survive a harsh winter in St. Paul after having suffered the loss of their male companions in a failed bank robbery. According to Le Sueur, it was a collective work: We had a writer's group of women in The Workers Alliance and we met every night to raise our miserable circumstances to the level of sagas, poetry, cry-outs. The rewritten version emphasised the fate of the farm girl of the title as she struggled to survive the death of her lover and give birth to another girl, the hope of a new and better generation.
This first and only comprehensive collection of the literary achievement of Meridel Le Sueur-artist, journalist, political activist, and feminist-includes her best and most representative fiction, reportage, and autobiography from every decade since the twenties. The New York Times Book Review wrote that this volume "inspires belief in the power of a writer-and a woman-to prevail against poverty, persecution and public neglect...[Le Sueur's] consummate achievement as an artist is her transformation of colloquial speech into musical prose.
In the early years of the twentieth century, as the spirit of Progressivism swept the country, thousands of Americans turned their energies to creating a more just and equitable society. Liberal and left-wing organizations fought for and won a host of labor, political, and social reforms. Marian Wharton and Arthur Le Sueur stood in the thick of those battles.
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