I’ve been hooked ever since, and now the brightly jacketed library rejects fill four shelves of my bookcase. PhotoThere are two basic categories of career romance. Even the more traditionally feminine career paths are treated with seriousness. PhotoThe career romances from the publishers Valentine and Avalon are more entertaining, if rather less educational. I can’t speak to their utility for contemporary young women; certainly, “Joan: Freelance Writer,” from 1948, would prove somewhat misleading for a young woman moving to the city, if only because Joan lives in an entire house in Gramercy Park.

Source: New York Times November 30, 2017 18:00 UTC