The Girls Of Slender Means

Beschreibung

'It never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.'<BR><BR>The May of Teck Club 'exists for the Pecuniary Convenience and Social Protection of Ladies of Slender Means below the age of Thirty Years'. Nevertheless, and though there is a war on, they find the time between elocution lessons to jostle one another over suitors (some more suitable than others) and a single Schiaparelli gown.

But can a love of literature, fine clothes and amorous young men save these young ladies from the horrors of the real world?<BR><BR>'Unsettling and exhilarating' William Boyd, Daily Telegraph <BR><BR>'An enduring genius' Guardian <BR>

Angaben vom Händler.