The Angry Woman was published by Lippincott in 1948 and reprinted by Bantam in 1950, with a cover line calling it a frank novel about a family friend. Marion Zimmer Bradley summarized it as the story of a businesswoman who keeps a young girl reluctantly captivated until the girl commits suicide. Barbara Grier rated it A, with a query about whether it was only variant. It is one of the early postwar novels in which the lesbian is a domineering figure and the story ends in death, a pattern of punishing endings that 1950s paperback publishers later demanded of lesbian novels. It is best read as a hostile period portrayal.
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The Angry Woman was published by Lippincott in 1948 and reprinted by Bantam in 1950, with a cover line calling it a frank novel about a family friend. Marion Zimmer Bradley summarized it as the story of a businesswoman who keeps a young girl reluctantly captivated until the girl commits suicide. Barbara Grier rated it A, with a query about whether it was only variant. It is one of the early postwar novels in which the lesbian is a domineering figure and the story ends in death, a pattern of punishing endings that 1950s paperback publishers later demanded of lesbian novels. It is best read as a hostile period portrayal.