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Originally Posted by issybird
I preferred Sue Barton to Cherry Ames. I also liked the Dorothy Deming books, but not as much. As for nonfiction, the one that sticks in my mind is Combat Nurses of World War II:
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I never wanted to be a nurse, but I loved reading nonfiction about women and there wasn't much when I was a girl. Queens, first ladies, nurses... that was about it. I can still work up an interest in the Tudor ladies and Marie Antoinette!
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I have that book. Some years back I picked up every juvenile nurse book I could find on eBay, re-creating my childhood reading and discovering some new ones. I especially like the WWII-era nurse series--Cherry was the only one that lasted well beyond the war.
I think it was Cherry's independence that appealed to me, and I connected it with nursing. But that career choice didn't survive past elementary school.
As for nonfiction, I read bios of Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton and Edith Cavell, and of various saints. I don't recall caring much about queens or first ladies!