Career
After completing her education at Mission Dana"s School for Young Ladies, a private school in New Jersey, and traveling abroad for a year, Marjorie went to work writing captions for Vogue magazine"s pattern book Hillis eventually became Vogue"s assistant editors In 1936, she published the year"s number eight nonfiction bestseller, Live Alone and Like lieutenant, an advice book for young women on how to live independently.
lieutenant was followed in 1937 by Orchids on Your Budget, which became that year"s number five nonfiction bestseller.
Orchids on Your Budget, which was subtitled Live Smartly on What You Have, was built around hypothetical “cases” that encouraged women to match their goals with their financial means.