hoyden

Belden described her as looking like “a charming hoyden.”

She was still a hoyden girl of fourteen in spite of her womanly status.

Page in his novel “Lolita” on which Vladimir Nabokov referred to “Noon”: “. . . she wanted to know if the guy noon-napping on Doris Lee’s hay was the father of the pseudo-voluptuous hoyden in the foreground.”

Ekaterina Kondaurova was aggressively glamorous, like Marlene Dietrich enjoying herself in a villainess role; Anastasia Petushkova, an even more dominating hoyden, was like Carol Burnett.

His success inspired a subgenre of Southern-gothic pulp, with titles like “Swamp Hoyden,” by Jack Woodford and John B. Thompson, and “The Sin Shouter of Cabin Road,” by John Faulkner.