Gilmore Girls (2000)/S1E1 · Pilot/Rory's Stars Hollow High locker: The Second Sex

Gilmore Girls · Season 1, Episode 1, "Pilot"

Rory's Stars Hollow High locker: The Second Sex

Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel) · Rory's locker at Stars Hollow High

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Rory clears out her locker on her last day at Stars Hollow High before Chilton, and the books come out with everything else. Simone de Beauvoir is in there next to a Victoria Holt gothic romance. That range is the whole character, filed in a public-school locker.

Sources: S1Ep1: Pilot, The Annotated Gilmore Girls

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Cover of The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

1The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir · 1949 · nonfiction

Published in France in 1949, and the Vatican later put it on its Index of Forbidden Books. A sophomore keeping it next to her gym clothes is about as rebellious as Rory gets in season one.

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Cover of Mistress of Mellyn by Victoria Holt

2Mistress of Mellyn

Victoria Holt · 1960 · novel

Victoria Holt's 1960 debut sends a governess to a Cornish mansion with a brooding widower, so Jane Eyre with better weather. Holt was one of several pen names of Eleanor Hibbert, who also wrote as Jean Plaidy and Philippa Carr.

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