

Two Famous Young Heroines from the books of Helen Dore Boylston: Sue Barton, the lively redhead who pursues her nursing career with vim, vitality, and constant adventure. Plenty of excitement and romance followed both Sue Barton and Carol Page through all their endeavors.įrom the back cover of Carol Plays Summer Stock:

Boylston's two career novel series gave a fascinating look at the life of the mid-century career girl. No career seemed to offer as much variety and dramatic tension as nursing-unless it was acting. And one of the most-written about careers was nursing. Helen Dore Boylston wrote a kind of book that was quite popular in the 1940s through the 1960s-the career novel.
