Rosamond du jardin biography of michael

Born 1902, Fairland, Illinois; died 27 March 1963

Daughter of Edgar and Ida May Neal; married VictorDuJardin, 1925

Rosamond Neal DuJardin, a popular writer best remembered for her honest, direct novels about teenagers, began her career as a fiction writer for the Chicago Daily News in 1930, but soon moved on to sell more than 100 stories to magazines such as Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, and McCall's. DuJardin's first novels, published between 1935 and 1946, were written for adults and often appeared first in magazine serial form.

Honorable Estate (1943), like many of DuJardin's works, takes place in a small town in Illinois.

Rosamond du jardin biography of michael

A young man brings his bride of a day home to the unwelcoming astonishment of his mother and tyrannical grandfather. Although the year is 1940, their lives revolve around petty, small-town gossip, not world events. The narrowness of convention destroys the newly formed marriage contract by demanding suffo