State Library Victoria > La Trobe Journal

No 40 Spring 1987

A typical Mills and Boon dust-jacket illustration. This one was pasted by the proprietor of Tonkin’s Hygienic Library in Hawthorn on to the back of Phyllis Matthewman’s 1948 novel. The book now in the author’s possession, was borrowed 35 times in its first year at Tonkin’s and 67 times in all before being discarded in 1953 or 1954. [book cover]

A typical Mills and Boon dust-jacket illustration. This one was pasted by the proprietor of Tonkin's Hygienic Library in Hawthorn on to the back of Phyllis Matthewman's 1948 novel. The book now in the author's possession, was borrowed 35 times in its first year at Tonkin's and 67 times in all before being discarded in 1953 or 1954.