White Collar Girl

by Faith Baldwin

Linda Anthony had known Dick Jarvis since they were children at dancing school. But when he came back, after years at exclusive schools, to Lawrenceton, the small town that was home to them both, she was strangely disturbed to realize that he had fallen in love with her, for she felt that he, like his father, believed in blocking Lawrencton's progress for their own ends. Trying to avoid him, she spend more and more time at her job, and the many friends she made enabled her to campaign effectively against Dick's father when he ran for Mayor. But it was not only political beliefs that stood between them, for Dorine Dunne, hometown movie star, made her glamorous appearance in town, and rumors of her engagement ot Dick Jarvis spread like wildfire. Yet inspite of love's traditionally rough path, Linda and Dick found that they could not run away from each other.

Genres: Fiction, Romance

219 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1933

About the author

Faith Baldwin attended private academies and finishing schools, and in 1914-16 she lived in Dresden, Germany. She married Hugh H. Cuthrell in 1920, and the next year she published her first novel, Mavis of Green Hill. Although she often claimed she did not care for authorship, her steady stream of books belies that claim; over the next 56 years she published more than 85 books, more than 60 of them novels with such titles as Those Difficult Years (1925), The Office Wife (1930), Babs and Mary Lou (1931), District Nurse (1932), Manhattan Nights (1937), and He Married a Doctor (1944). Her last completed novel, Adam's Eden, appeared in 1977.

Typically, a Faith Baldwin book presents a highly simplified version of life among the wealthy. No matter what the difficulties, honour and goodness triumph, and hero and heroine are united. Evil, depravity, poverty, and sex found no place in her work, which she explicitly intended for the housewife and the working girl. The popularity of her writing was enormous. In 1936, in the midst of the Great Depression, she published five novels in magazine serial form and three earlier serials in volume form and saw four of her works made into motion pictures, for an income that year in excess of $315,000. She also wrote innumerable stories, articles, and newspaper columns, no less ephemeral than the novels.

Reviews

[Yrsa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jag hittade den här i mormor och morfars källare och eftersom jag är ett fan av tv-serien White Collar var jag tvungen att läsa den (och för att pocketen har samma stil som några av mina Perry Mason-böcker). Sen att den här boken inte har någonting med tv-serien White Collar är en helt annan sak, hade boken inte hetat som den hetat hade jag kanske inte tagit en extra titt på den.

Boken överraskade mig, jag trodde inte att jag skulle tycka så mycket om den. Jag är sugen på att läsa mer av Faith Baldwin!