Women Inc.

KIRKUS "an inside story of women (and for them), heavy with mutual sympathy and solidarity as they work together for a small press, now inaugurating a literary quarterly. Sheilah, Peggy, Margaret, Constance, and the narrator all find in Beth- their newest and youngest member-their means for vicarious living, hoping. All are aware of their age, their failures. Peggy is tied to her father and a long-term fiance; Margaret's Ralph only comes on occasional weekends; Constance has no man. It is Beth whose chances are future- not past- who falls in love with their new editor, Russ, who asks his wife for a divorce to marry Beth but leaves for service overseas until that can be accomplished. Here are the hopes of writing (but not doing it); of marrying (but not accomplishing it); of freedom as women in business (but not attaining equal status). A confessional, often tremulous, but femininely recognizable and readable. Jane Kesner Ardmore (1912 — August 17, 2000), also known as Jane Kesner Morris, was a writer in Hollywood, best known for biographies of actors, and for three novels. Ardmore worked as a reporter in Hollywood, specializing in celebrity profiles for magazines and newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, Good Housekeeping, and the Saturday Evening Post. Book-length biographies by Ardmore include Take My Life (1957, about and with Eddie Cantor), The Dress Doctor (1959, about and with Edith Head), The Self Enchanted (1959, about Mae Murray), and Portrait of Joan (1962, about and with Joan Crawford). Ardmore also wrote fiction; her novels were Women Inc. (1946), Julie (1952), and To Love is to Listen (1967). In 1968 Ardmore was honored by the Theta Sigma Phi professional organization for women in communications, as "National Headliner of 1968." -wikipedia