Simonetta Perkins is a 1925 novella by the British writer L. P. Hartley.Wright p.84 A young Bostonian woman visiting Venice with her overbearing mother quickly tires of her fellow American tourists and begins to fixate on a handsome gondolier.
References
Bibliography Wright, Adrian. Foreign Country: The Life of L.P. Hartley. I. B. Tauris, 2001.