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The Girls of Slender Means is a novella written in 1963 by British author Muriel Spark. It was included in Anthony Burgess's 1984 book Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 — A Personal Choice.
- Muriel Spark
- 1963
Muriel Spark, Rosemary Goring. London, 1945. The girls of slender means are the residents of the May of Teck Club, a genteel yet rather shabby boarding house established for the 'social protection of ladies of slender means below the age of thirty years'.
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Complete summary of Muriel Spark's The Girls of Slender Means. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Girls of Slender Means.
The Girls of Slender Means, novel by Muriel Spark, published in a shortened version in 1963 in The Saturday Evening Post and published in book form later that year. The novel, set primarily in London during World War II, focuses on the inhabitants of a residential club for unmarried women and on.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The young ladies live in a hostel in London, called May of Teck (after the Queen of that name). There are actually three older ladies there, who have always lived there – no-one is sure why – and who stay on because no-one had the heart to throw them out.
Apr 17, 1998 · The Girls of Slender Means is Dame Muriel Spark's tragic portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II.
- Muriel Spark
The Girls of Slender Means. Like the May of Teck Club itself--"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"--its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back...
