Romance for Young Moderns – Pulp & Pep https://monicanolan.com/pulppep An exploration of lesbian pulps and 1950s teen romance Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:40:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.3 120614702 The Wonderful World of Work https://monicanolan.com/pulppep/2012/02/06/the-wonderful-world-of-work/ https://monicanolan.com/pulppep/2012/02/06/the-wonderful-world-of-work/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:40:54 +0000 http://monicanolan.jayuen.com/pulppep/?p=42 Maureen Corrigan, in her review of recent novels about the unemployed, started by saying that historically “the workaday world…has been considered too mundane to be of much interest.”  Poor Maureen–another otherwise well-read person completely unaware of the world of Career Girl books. I’m talking about books like Betty Loring, Illustrator (1948), Patti Lewis, Home Economist (1956), and A Flair for People (1955–the heroine is a personnel director). Despite growing up with the Beany Malone books (which she analyzes in her memoir Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading, Maureen somehow missed out on books like Date With A Career (1958), and Phoebe’s First Campaign (1963).

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