The Girls in 3-B

Three small-town girls move to the big city in this reissue of a classic 1950s pulp.

About the author

Valerie Taylor is the pen name of Velma Young, author of the lesbian pulp classics Whisper Their Love (1957), The Girls in 3-B (1959), World Without Men (1963), Journey to Fulfillment (1964), and Ripening (1988). With the $500 proceeds of her first novel, Hired Girl (1953), Taylor bought a pair of shoes, two dresses, and hired a divorce lawyer. After leaving her husband, she kicked off a prolific career as the author of pulp fiction novels, poetry (under the name of Nacella Young), and romances (under the name Francine Davenport). A long-time activist for gay and lesbian rights, she was a co-founder of Mattachine Midwest and the Lesbian Writers Conference in Chicago.

Product details

• Authors: Valerie Taylor
• Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.12.2003
• EAN: 9781558614628
• ISBN: 978-1-55861-462-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 208 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 357 g
• Illustrations: Illustrations
• Series: Femmes Fatales: Women Write Pu; Femmes Fatales: Women Write Pu; Femmes Fatales
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature