Jacqueline Susann

American author and actress

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    Along with such writers as Jacqueline Susann (whose Valley of the Dolls was published in 1966), Collins was at the vanguard of a movement in female-oriented fiction that eschewed the chaste romance conventions established by Barbara Cartland and her ilk in favour of a less-euphemistic, more-uninhibited approach to sexuality. Collins’s…

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