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Betty Van Deventer
Best known for a string of lively Little Blue Books from the late 1920s, this author wrote brisk, practical, and often provocative guides about modern work, romance, religion, and city life.
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100 professions for women
by Betty Van Deventer
About the author
Betty Van Deventer was a prolific early 20th-century writer whose books appeared in the Little Blue Book series published by Haldeman-Julius. Open Library lists 11 works by her, including 100 Professions for Women, How New York Working Girls Live, How to Get a Husband, How to Become a Radio Artist, and Why Preachers Go Wrong.
A digitized edition of Confessions of a Modern Woman shows that it was published in 1928 by the Haldeman-Julius Company, which places her work squarely in the energetic, mass-market world of short popular booklets. Her titles suggest a writer interested in the changing roles of women, the pressures of work and marriage, and the social currents of modern urban life.
Reliable biographical details about her life are scarce in the sources I found, so it is safest to remember her through the books themselves: sharp, topical, and written for everyday readers curious about how people lived, loved, worked, and believed in the late 1920s.