 "Student
Nurse"
by Gail Jordan
Uni-Book #37, 1950
The back cover reads: "The Innocent Wanton...
To a man whose brushes with nature have been confined largely to the
sowing of wild oats, a sojourn in a hospital room can be quite restorative.
Especially when the man is wealthy Jordan Ainslee, the well-known playboy--and
he is attended by Martha Desmond, pretty little student nurse.
Since Jordan was as new in her experience as she was in his, it was
child's play for him to seduce her. In her innocence, the student nurse
assumed that marriage would follow. And it turned out, to everyone's surprise,
that she was right!
But Jordan soon turned from Martha's sweet freshness to the more lush
charms of a sophisticated blonde actress. Fortunately, he had proven himself
an expert tutor in the ways of love. Although her husband did not suspect
it, from her experiences with him the pretty nurse had learned how to fight
male aggression--and how to invite it!"
In pulp literature, there are some great sub
genres: South Sea Adventure, War, Office romance, back-woods tales, carnival
life, and the nurse story, just to name a few. Student Nurse
fits into its genre quite nicely. Usually a nurse story goes this way:
an innocent young nurse (who just happens to be the hottest thing in a
starched uniform) takes care an ailing millionare/playboy or works for
a ruggedly good-looking doctor. The nurse is independent but not ready
to throw away the idea of being a happy wife and homemaker. Romance buds
and there's brief happiness. Then usually some other woman (or man or both)
enters the pictures and creates a love triangle (or rectangle or octagon
or whatever) and our young nurse is left with a choice--either fight for
the man she loves or slink into the background. The story typically ends
with the nurse finding lasting happiness in some other form (or with someone
else).
In modern eyes, nurse stories look horribly
sexist and even though you see a women trying to be independent. But no
matter how fisety she is, she always goes gooey over a handsome man and
quickly reverts back to traditional female role.
See also:
"Red-Headed
Nurse" by Thomas Stone
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