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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).