"A jazzed and patchwork modern": "future" girls and modern masculinities in the early popular romances of Berta Ruck
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As a best-selling writer of popular romances during the first half of the twentieth century, Berta Ruck (1878-1978) has been characterised as a producer of 'omelettes of frivolity and sweetness' whose appeal was confined to adolescent girls and the servant cla... ...