¿One of the most entertaining, excellently sustained and consistently developed novels of the season.";¿New York Times (1941)

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.