Lillian Moira Rappe

Illegitimates I Have Slaved for Lillian Moira Rappe

The private Lillian Rappe talks: about love, sex, food, beauty, fame, work, money, success: about Malta, New York, Michigan - Europe and America: about herself: her young work life in the "Victory kitchens" of war-torn Malta, her move to London, New York and Michigan, good times and bad times in the United States, the explosion of her career from the sixties to the eighties - and the "illegitimate" bosses for whom she labored. Her book illustrates the life of a secretary in the 1960s, 70s and 80s and is at times humorous and at others sad and demoralizing. It is both honest and candid and gives a true life depiction of the plight of the female secretary pre-ERA and women's lib!