Madam, - While I am pleased at the tribute paid to my friend Pamela O'Malley in your edition of February 13th, I am distressed and dismayed at the heading of the news report, "Widow of 'Ginger Man' dies in Madrid".
To describe any woman as the widow of her husband is to deny her her own identity, but to describe her as the widow of a fictional character in a novel can only be described as even more demeaning and so insensitive to her memory. - Yours, etc,
MARIE-LOUISE COLBERT, Cross Avenue, Blackrock, Co Dublin.