Stella Dallas Format: Paperback

Olive Higgins Prouty

ISBN 10: 1558618902 / ISBN 13: 9781558618909

Published by The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stella Dallas Format: Paperback
• Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1558618902
• ISBN 13: 9781558618909
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

About this title

Synopsis

This pulp classic of motherhood and money introduced the immortal character portrayed on film by Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Midler—“a feminist gem” (Michael Bronski).

An ambitious woman from working-class roots, Stella sets her sights on marrying rich—and hits a bullseye. But her unshakable crudeness becomes too much for her husband. When he leaves her, she keeps their daughter Laurel. And now Stella sets her sights one again—this time, on giving her daughter the life she could never achieve for herself.

Originally published in 1923, this epic tale inspired the first radio soap opera, a Broadway play, and multiple films, including the Oscar-nominated 1937 movie starring Barbara Stanwyck and the 1990 movie Stella starring Bette Midler. Stella Dallas is a razor-sharp critique of our societal obsession with the judgment of mothers, offering cultural commentary that is still shockingly relevant nearly one hundred years after its initial publication.

About the Author

Olive Higgins Prouty (1882―1974), like many of her characters a wealthy Bostonian, was the author of ten novels, including Stella Dallas (1923), which became the basis for three films and a long-running radio serial. A graduate of Smith College, Prouty endowed a writer's scholarship at Smith that was received by Sylvia Plath, who later portrayed her patron unflatteringly in The Bell Jar.