The Leather Boys one starts chatting him up. When Pete walks in they all recognise him and Reggie suddenly understands that Pete too is gay. He leaves. The book was published in 1961 under the pseudonym Eliot George—an inversion of the pen-name of the famous 19th century female author, Mary Ann Evans, who published as George Eliot. Freeman is credited under her own name in the film as the author of the screenplay based on the novel of "Eliot George". The original novel is explicit about the sexual relationship between the two male characters, and about the odds that the hero's wife is
Mary Ann Delafield DuBois Mary Ann Delafield DuBois Mary Ann Delafield DuBois (November 6, 1813 — October 27, 1888) was an American sculptor and philanthropist. In 1854 she was co-founder of New York's Nursery and Child's Hospital, and was the hospital's director. Mary Ann Delafield was born in London, the daughter of an American father, John Delafield, and his English wife, Mary Roberts Delafield. Her father, a banker, was in England during the War of 1812, and Mary Ann moved to New York City after her mother died in 1819. She attended the Litchfield Female Academy in 1825. During the Panic of 1837, DuBois