A fragment of Weber’s 1923 feature A Chapter in Her Life, about a young girl’s quest to redeem a family burdened by alcoholism. Rejoining Universal after the collapse of her production company, Weber chose to adapt Clara Louise Burnham’s best-selling 1903 novel promoting Christian Science, a project she had first brought to the screen in her 1915 feature Jewel. While some critics complained of the film’s “saccharine Pollyanna theme” (“Variety”), Marcia Landy finds a powerful treatment of domesticity and interiority. “What we see in A Chapter in Her Life is a hermetic bourgeois world centering on imprisoned femininity, with fantasy and fairy tale used to portray emotional discontent” (Marcia Landy, 1923: Movies and the Changing Body of Cinema, in American Cinema of the 1920s: Themes and Variations, edited by Lucy Fischer, Rutgers University Press, 2009).