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- ID
- b275
- Title
- "The Quiet Girl."
- Genre
- Novella
- Page Count
- 40
- Word Count
- 10000
- Publisher
- Argosy (UK)
- Publication Year
- 1962
- Topics
- Sex, Same Sex Relationships
An isolated seamstress selfishly juggles two passionless affairs, but then falls in love with a man who himself is interested only in superficial romance.
The tale also briefly includes a recurrent Bates character, a lesbian with masculine attributes.
In Argosy (February 1962), The Golden Oriole (1962).
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