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Women's Women

This article focuses on the books "Betty Marchand," written by Beatrice Barmby, "A Girl Named Mary, written by Juliet Wilbor Tompkins, "Josselyn's Wife," written by Kathleen Norris, "The Years for Rachel," written by Berta Thick, "You're Only Young Once," written by Margaret Widdemer and "The Lonely Stronghold," written by Baillie Reynolds. Early twentieth-century fiction is likely to be remembered for its heightened sex-consciousness. The novel has been enlivened by the spectacle of woman sporting her own latch-key, inhaling her own, smoke, jingling her own money in her pockets. Lost from her cradle, the rich girl in the book "A Girl Named Mary," has been reared by a good Irishwoman, and has become a capable office-woman of eighteen before her real mother finds her. The book "The Lonely Stronghold" presents once more the dark and virile and mysterious hero.