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ID
bx6
Title
"Old Lady."
Genre
Story
Page Count
1
Word Count
300
Publisher
Star
Publication Year
1938
Document Types
Eads, Additions to
First-Person Narratives
Uncollected Antemortem
Topics
Old Age

A woman in her nineties shares the difficulties of age and remembers her youth, when as a servant girl she had two boyfriends at once.

In The Star, (April 21, 1938) and the ebook edition of The Nature of Love (Bloomsbury, 2016).