and one of FB's most convoluted sentences yet: 'Well, I wonder,' said Jennie, 'whether it pays to be a virgin!' 'Haven't had a row, have you? What about? Margaret Sanger or the family budget?'

'What?' asked Jennie, rising from the couch. I don't think we're going to be married.' Lynn pushed her small hat even farther off her forehead and sat down limply in the one big chair. According to my memory, too, this bears relatively little resemblance to the Barbara Stanwyck movie that followed. There were just a few too many single-word sentences and hyphens for emphasis for my taste. It feels like FB wrote this while still entertaining delusions of grandeur and before devolving into entirely cray romance novels.

She also wrote innumerable stories, articles, and newspaper columns, no less ephemeral than the novels. 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. The popularity of her writing was enormous. Evil, depravity, poverty, and sex found no place in her work, which she explicitly intended for the housewife and the working girl. No matter what the difficulties, honour and goodness triumph, and hero and heroine are united. Typically, a Faith Baldwin book presents a highly simplified version of life among the wealthy. Her last completed novel, Adam's Eden, appeared in 1977. 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). Cuthrell in 1920, and the next year she published her first novel, Mavis of Green Hill. Faith Baldwin attended private academies and finishing schools, and in 1914-16 she lived in Dresden, Germany.

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