I also noted how many PBOs Export Publishing Enterprises Ltd published - 55 of 166 (33%.) Here we'll look at three PBOs from an author who has no biography - Rose Carrol (sometimes Carroll). This is not uncommon for Export authors as a surprising number exist only as names on Export books, very likely unacknowledged pseudonyms.
The Restless Dead is a collection of 14 stories advertised as "true". The fact that one of the stories is Charlotte Perkins Gilman's famous "The Yellow Wallpaper" makes that claim a bit suspect. Export has "The Yellow Wall Paper" by Charlotte Perkin [sic].
News Stand Library 112 - June 1950
News Stand Library 112 back
Sex Life Among Savage People has a "prelude" by T. L. Kennedy (no hint who he/she is) and a bibliography, the only Export book to have one. Some chapter titles are "Orgiastic Licence", "Course of Savage Romance", "Love Magic".
News Stand Library 124 - August 1950
News Stand Library 124 back
Tawny Witch is the only novel by Ms. Carrol.
News Stand Library 146 - October 1950
News Stand Library 146 back
I'm going to step out on a limb here:
ReplyDeleteI wonder whether there might be some connection between Rose Carroll and Jock Carroll.
Or maybe it's Rose Carrol, after all... one never knows with Export.
Carol is the preferred spelling in the books but it could be Jock Carroll. I see he would have been 31 in 1950 and was a journalist in Toronto. He could very well be one of the unidentified Export authors. A list of possible candidates for these authors would be fun to put together.
ReplyDeleteSomeone has speculated that it could be the wife of one of Export's owners who was named Rose. She did work closely with her husband on business ventures.