What influenced does the late Helen Gurley Brown still have over women today?

We'll discuss two new biographies of the original Cosmo Girl.

Moira Wigel is here to talk about them.

In a funny way, what seems like a contradiction worked for her because that playing those

roles was part of her sort of pull yourself up by the bootstraps can do strategy.

What can seven generations of women tell us about a single and quite fascinating British

family?

Author Juliet Nicholson, granddaughter of Vita Sackville West, is here to talk about her

memoir, A House Full of Daughters.

The great challenge of each daughter is whether they can change and move forward and break

the pattern interrupt the bad habits or the emotional inheritance.

Also, literary news and the books we at the Book Review are reading this week.

This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Helen Gurley Brown, the editor of Cosmo Palatin magazine, wrote Sex and the Single Girl

in 1962, which became a bestseller and a phenomenon.

Two new biographies of Brown explain Brown's self-created mythology, and why her idea of

women having it all still resonates even as it rubs us wrong.

Our reviewer Moira Wigel is here to talk about them.

Moira, thanks so much for joining us.

Thanks for having me.

All right, so the two books are Enter Helen, the invention of Helen Gurley Brown and

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