The Friendly Young LadiesWhen seventeen-year-old Elsie runs away from home, she seeks out her older sister Leo, only to find Leo sharing a houseboat, and a bed, with the beautiful, fair-haired Helen. When Elsie decides to stay for a bit, she turns Helen and Leo's lifestyle upside down. An enchanting portrait of Bohemian life in 1930s London, this delightfully provocative romantic comedy was written in 1943 in opposition to the despair characteristic of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness or Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour. |
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... face , like a face stilled by incantation . It did not much perturb him . The word transference floated , with the comfortable assurance of text - book and experiment , across his mind . Rather more briskly , since time was getting ...
... face , like a face stilled by incantation . It did not much perturb him . The word transference floated , with the comfortable assurance of text - book and experiment , across his mind . Rather more briskly , since time was getting ...
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... face over with that . Don't wash it , whatever you do . Then put some of this cream on , and I'll come back in a minute and do the top layer for you . Don't worry . I'll fix you up all right . ” She was gone . Elsie sat , with the pad ...
... face over with that . Don't wash it , whatever you do . Then put some of this cream on , and I'll come back in a minute and do the top layer for you . Don't worry . I'll fix you up all right . ” She was gone . Elsie sat , with the pad ...
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... face when Helen arrived in the room . Absorbed in the task , she had not noticed the boat in midstream . She had drawn a cupid's bow which overlapped the line of her mouth in three places , and had attempted to rouge her cheeks with her ...
... face when Helen arrived in the room . Absorbed in the task , she had not noticed the boat in midstream . She had drawn a cupid's bow which overlapped the line of her mouth in three places , and had attempted to rouge her cheeks with her ...
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