Marjorie May Learns About Life (1936) - Facts About Menstruation that every Woman should know (1936) - Marjorie May, three booklets, 1935 main pageRead most of a 1928 Australian edition of Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday. Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (1935) - Facts About Menstruation that every Woman should know (1936) - Marjorie May, introductory page, 1935 main pageRead Lynn Peril's series about these and similar booklets! And see the covers of the booklets How shall I tell my daughter?, Growing up and liking it, and Personal Digest; read the whole booklet As One Girl to Another (Kotex, 1940).Marjorie May, three booklets, 1935 main pageHOMEPAGECONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation
and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
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Marjorie May's 12th
[Twelfth] Birthday
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Compare the writing of the two first pages of different editions, this one and the early Australian, below.Aren't you glad that Ms. Callender, or her editor, changed darlingest to best? And Marjorie sits next to her mother, not on her lap - flappers usually preferred men's laps. Someone improved the whole story. Read most of the older version here, where there's more discussion of the tale. See also, below, how the American 1938 edition changed. |
Covers and introduction - title page - pages 2 & 3 - pages 4 & 5 - pages 6 & 7 - pages 8 & 9 - page 10
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1928 edition (Australia), first page of story |
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Below: First page of the American 1938 edition.
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Covers and introduction - title page - pages 2 & 3 - pages 4 & 5 - pages 6 & 7 - pages 8 & 9 - page 10
Marjorie May Learns
About Life (1936) - Facts About Menstruation
that every Woman should know (1936)