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Cabinet 8: Romance: Medical

Kerry Mitchell, Bush Nurse. 1st ed. London ; Melbourne: Horwitz, 1960. Pulp Literature Special Collections PR9611.M535 B87

___, Bush Nurse. 2nd ed. London: Horwitz, 1962. Pulp Literature Special Collections PR9611.M535 B87 1962

Rhonda Gale, Forever Forbidden. Sydney: Transport Publishing, [1951]. Pulp Literature Special Collections PR9610.G34 F67

There is nothing like progress. Over a two-year period, from the first edition of Bush Nurse to the second, Horwitz’s cover artist (McNeil?) has nurse Colette Dangar moving from a horse to a motor-car. Described in the first edition as a ‘blonde nurse with sad grey eyes’, she certainly looks perky in the second. The author may have been a real person, but it is certain that Ray Slattery and Lee Pattinson wrote some of the Kerry Mitchell stories, which featured in a very successful medical romance series.

Authorship of Forever Forbidden, a Rhonda Gale romance, is unknown, but it has been suggested that Alan Geoffrey Yates (Carter Brown) had a hand in writing this moralistic tale of love, tears, and disappointment.

Kerry Mitchell, Bush Nurse. 1st ed. London ; Melbourne: Horwitz, 1960. Pulp Literature Special Collections PR9611.M535 B87

___, Bush Nurse. 2nd ed. London: Horwitz, 1962. Pulp Literature Special Collections PR9611.M535 B87 1962

Rhonda Gale, Forever Forbidden. Sydney: Transport Publishing, [1951]. Pulp Literature Special Collections PR9610.G34 F67