A Woman Called Fancy

A Woman Called Fancy is a 1951 historical novel by the American writer Frank Yerby. The book's dedication page simply states "FOR MY MOTHER." A Woman Called Fancy was included in fifth place on the Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels of 1951.

Synopsis
Fancy grows up in the Appalachian Mountains of South Carolina in the late Nineteenth Century. When she is nineteen she runs away from home to escape an arranged marriage. She ends up in Augusta in Georgia where she enjoys a series of romances.