The Girls Of Slender Means

<p><b>'It never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.'</b><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?<b><br><br>'Unsettling and exhilarating' William Boyd, <i>Daily Telegraph </i><br><br>'An enduring genius' <i>Guardian </i><br></b></p> <p><b>'It never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.'</b><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?<b><br><br>'Unsettling and exhilarating' William Boyd, <i>Daily Telegraph </i><br><br>'An enduring genius' <i>Guardian </i><br></b></p>