JoulesVintage
Margery Sharp
Dustjacket is priceless, featuring photo of charmingly bespectacled author on the back, and cool illustration, by Ira Greenblatt, on the front. Story is a complete riot, kind of Bridget Jones meets Sex in the City, back in the sixties. Early chick lit!
"Louisa Mary Datchett was very fond of men. Men, for their part, seemed to recognize this in her and took advantage of it--and of her--when they needed listening to, when they needed prescriptions filled, employment found, socks washed, suits fetched from the cleaners, or musical instruments got out of hock. "Bachelors in lodgings going down with influenza employed their last spark of consciousness to telephone Louisa. ..She was constantly being either sent for, like a fire engine, or dispatched, like a lifeboat, to the scene of some masculine disaster." It is time, Louisa decides, feeling jaded, to start looking out for herself. The result of this new and unfamiliar impulse is to marry, and marry well..."
Margery Sharp
Dustjacket is priceless, featuring photo of charmingly bespectacled author on the back, and cool illustration, by Ira Greenblatt, on the front. Story is a complete riot, kind of Bridget Jones meets Sex in the City, back in the sixties. Early chick lit!
"Louisa Mary Datchett was very fond of men. Men, for their part, seemed to recognize this in her and took advantage of it--and of her--when they needed listening to, when they needed prescriptions filled, employment found, socks washed, suits fetched from the cleaners, or musical instruments got out of hock. "Bachelors in lodgings going down with influenza employed their last spark of consciousness to telephone Louisa. ..She was constantly being either sent for, like a fire engine, or dispatched, like a lifeboat, to the scene of some masculine disaster." It is time, Louisa decides, feeling jaded, to start looking out for herself. The result of this new and unfamiliar impulse is to marry, and marry well..."