"The Lemon Jelly Cake (Madeline Babcock Smith)"
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"Madeline Babcock Smith earned her spot in the literary limelight. But she never got to enjoy it.
Smith’s first novel, The Lemon Jelly Cake, published Aug. 4, 1952, “enjoyed an immediate and astounding success,” Dan Guillory wrote in his introduction to the 1998 Prairie State Books edition.
New York Times reviewer Jane Cobb called The Lemon Jelly Cake “a sophisticated, even urbane novel written by a woman with a perceptive eye for the facts of life.” The novel was a Literary Guild selection, and Woman’s Day magazine serialized it. The Associated Press declared The Lemon Jelly Cake a book of the week.
Four months after the novel’s release, however, Smith died of cancer, and The Lemon Jelly Cake never reached its commercial potential."
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