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ID
b142
Title
"A Scandalous Woman."
Genre
Story
Page Count
9
Word Count
2050
Publisher
Kingdom Come
Publication Year
1940

A memoir of village life, concerning a beautiful girl once surrounded by scandal and rumor, now married to a baker and with children, her face "with the sullenness of dough beaten into incomplete submission."

In The Beauty of the Dead and Other Stories (1940), Kingdom Come (Winter 1940-41), Twenty Tales (1951).