Weeds, Edith Summers Kelley, 1923, United States, NOVEL
"...Despite the hardships, there is something triumphant in this story that comes both from Judith's indomitable, fighting personality and from Edith Summers Kelley's ability to show the raw beauty in a world laden with pain and frustration...Most of all, there is life, which Edith Summers Kelley describes unflinchingly, even down to a graphic description of childbirth which was edited out by the publishers when Weeds was first issued in 1928..."
"...Despite the hardships, there is something triumphant in this story that comes both from Judith's indomitable, fighting personality and from Edith Summers Kelley's ability to show the raw beauty in a world laden with pain and frustration...Most of all, there is life, which Edith Summers Kelley describes unflinchingly, even down to a graphic description of childbirth which was edited out by the publishers when Weeds was first issued in 1928..."
(E.B., p. 174)