The Friendly Young Ladies

Mary Renault First published 1944

About this book

Set in 1937, this title is a romantic comedy of off-Bloomsbury bohemia. Sheltered, naive, and just 18, Elsie leaves the stifling environment of her parents' home in Cornwall to seek out her sister, Leo, who had run away nine years earlier.

Subjects

  • bohemianism
  • england, fiction
  • fiction
  • fiction, general
  • fiction in english
  • fiction, lesbian
  • fiction, lgbtq+, lesbian
  • houseboats
  • lesbians
  • lgbtq fiction before stonewall
  • london (england), fiction
  • manners and customs
  • physicians
  • sisters
  • social life and customs
  • triangles (interpersonal relations)
  • young women
  • young women, fiction