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- ID
- b216
- Title
- "The Ginger-Lily Girl."
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 5
- Word Count
- 1700
- Publisher
- Evening Standard
- Publication Year
- 1955
- Document Types
- First-Person Narratives
- Original Typescript (tss)
- Topics
- Pilots, Tahiti
The second of six brief newspaper "Tales of Tahiti;" in this one the narrator tells of the plight of a ugly and disfigured Tahitian girl who is deluded in thinking that an American pilot will soon take her to New York to get married.
A hand-corrected typescript (pp. 7) is held at the Museum of the English Rural Life at the University of Reading (https://merl.reading.ac.uk/wp-...).
In the Evening Standard (October 18, 1955), The Fabulous Mrs V (1964).
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