Modern American Career Women: Eleanor Clymer and Lillian Erlich; Illustrated with photographs
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1965. Hardcover. 5th printing. xii, [2], 178 p., [16] p. of black-and-white photographs; 21 cm. Blue cloth with gilt spine title. Upper corners of pages 103-6 were trimmed incorrectly without loss of text. Dust jacket has portraits of the 18 subjects on the back section. "Makers of Our Modern World" -- at head of front section of dust jacket. Eleanor Clymer's name and address (the Quadrangle, Haverford, Pa.) are stamped on a yellow slip attached to the front free endpaper. Eleanor Clymer (1906-2001) is best known as the author of 58 children's books published from 1943 to 1983. In Modern American Career Women, she and journalist Lillian Erlich present biographical essays about 18 American women who broke from the past in establishing successful careers in many different fields. The subjects are: Lillian Gilbreth, Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve, Frances Perkins, Anne O'Hare McCormick, Georgia O'Keeffe, Malvina Hoffman, Katharine F. Lenroot, Dorothy Shaver, Margaret Chase Smith, Helen B. Taussig, Mary Honor Donlon, Helen Hayes, Margaret Mead, Clare Boothe Luce, Pauline Frederick, Agnes de Mille, Jacqueline Cochran, and Babe Didrikson Zaharias. In the 1990s Clymer moved from Katonah, N.Y., to Haverford, Pa. Scarce. Book is in Very Good+ Condition: pages edges slightly soiled; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good- Condition: spine is faded; lightly rubbed and soiled; solid. Very Good + / very good -. Item #008519
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