Helen Perry Curtis and The European Trip of a Lifetime

In 1937 Helen Perry Curtis published Jean & Company Unlimited. Chosen in 1938 as a Junior Literary Guild Selection of the Month Jean is the charming account of an American girls first encounter with Europe. In Helen Perry Curtis and the European Trip of a Lifetime author Laura Gellott tells the story of the woman and the real-life events behind a beloved childhood book. She traces Helens life from a Nebraska childhood to New York New Jersey and across the European continent during the first decades of the twentieth century. Helen Perry Curtis worked as a museum curator and director; balanced marriage and motherhood with a career as a freelance writer interior designer and tour guide; and traveled throughout Europe with her daughters. The fictionalized account of those trips is Jean & Company Unlimited.