Women—Waiting For Men
Martha hated “The Girl Cage”—the house she lived in with four other wives whose husbands were fighting in Korea. She hated the way they escaped that cage. Redheaded Frieda slipped into one stranger’s hotel room after another. Love-hungry Colleen was partial to drunken sailors. Jealous Ellen gave herself to a rich party-boy. And sulky Joan sought relief in other ways. But Martha remained aloof from their touch-and-go affairs—until a hard, cool lieutenant showed her the way to real love.
Genre: Checklist by Marion Zimmer Bradley; Grier Rated
Publication History
| Copyright Date | 1953 |
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| Publication Date | October 1953 |
| Publisher | Popular Library |
| Format | Mass Market Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 158 |
| Language | English |
| Notes | Popular Library Book 1484 |
| Rating | Not Rated |
| Copyright Date | 1953 |
|---|---|
| Publication Date | June 1959 |
| Publisher | Crest Book |
| Format | Mass Market Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 160 |
| Language | English |
| Notes | Crest s302 |
| Rating | Not Rated |
| Copyright Date | 1953 |
|---|---|
| Publication Date | 1968 |
| Publisher | New English Library |
| Format | Mass Market Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 185 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | Not Rated |
Comment
The Girl Cage was a Fawcett paperback original in 1953, reprinted in 1959 and later retitled The Lonely Ones. Martha Gwynn hates "the girl cage," the San Diego house she shares with four other military wives while their husbands fight in Korea, and she especially hates the ways the others escape it. Marion Zimmer Bradley's Checklist noted only a brief, minor lesbian episode, and Barbara Grier listed it with a B. The lesbian content is secondary. Mergendahl was best known for The Bramble Bush (1958), and The Girl Cage has been reissued by Cutting Edge Books in a collection of vintage paperback novels.