Two serious ladies

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"Christina Goering, eccentric and adventurous, and Frieda Copperfield, anxious but enterprising, are two serious ladies who want to live outside of themselves. Old friends, each will take a surprising path in search of salvation: during a visit to Panama, Mrs. Copperfield abandons her husband, finding solace in a relationship with a teenage prostitute; while Miss Goering, a wealthy spinster, pursues sainthood via sordid encounters with the basest of men. At the end the two women meet again, each radically altered by her experience"--Provided by publisher.

subjects: American fiction (fictional works by one author),  Eccentrics and eccentricities,  Women,  Phobias,  Fiction,  Single women, fiction,  Fiction, general,  Prostitution,  Life change events,  Lesbians,  LGBTQ fiction before Stonewall