Mariella Novotney, Sixties mini-icon and author of the novel, 'King's Road', who briefly amused the media with her Barbarella-like look and comic utterances such as "I'm only good at two things. One is writing; the other is making love".
The Maria Asumpta was launched at Badalona in 1858, and was involved in the textile trade between Argentina and Spain; later she was used to transport slaves and salt. In the 1930s an engine was installed, and she was renamed Pepita. With the…