BIBLIOPHILE: 'Career Novels'

A strange phenomenon from around 1945-1965 was the Career Novels of Mary Dunn, an editor who came up with this series of "Good novels in their own right for fourteen-to-sixteen-year-old girls" which show them what they might face in their future careers. For a sense of what was considered a 'suitable' career, take a look at the other titles in the series:

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BIBLIOPHILE is an irregular series of posts looking at the rare, handsome and plain darn weird world of books.