Girls of slender means
A detailed Summary of Girls of slender means
The Girls of Slender Means by Murial Spark is a novel
about the girls who lived in the May of Teck Club during the
year of 1945. There are many characters involved, but the
one's who caught my attention the most are Jane Wright and
Joanna Childe. They represent different aspects of ideas,
lifestyles and, also, have different perspectives on the
Joanna Childe was the daughter of a country rector. She
was very intelligent, had "...strong obscure emotions" (8),
and "...religious strength" (165). She was very well
build. "Joanna Childe was large..." (9), "... fair and
healthy-looking..." (22). She had light shiny hair, blue
eyes and deep-pink cheeks. She never used a scrap of
make-up because she didn't really care about her looks and
she wasn't looking for a husband either.
Jane Wright, on the other hand, was very fat and felt
miserable about it. She tried to blame her work for her
appetite. "...[she] was miserable about her fatness and
spent much of her time in eager dread of the next meal, and
in making resolutions what to eat of it and what to leave,
and in making counter-resolutions in view of the fact
that her work at the publisher's was ess

letters of a friendly tone but with a business intention,
trying to rescue girls, who were trapped in the club from
accent. "Joanna's method was to read each stanza herself
certain words that she described as 'of a smouldering
under the auspices of the pale foreigner. Thirdly and more
thought of the publishing business as "...essentially
Both women were similar in that they did additional
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Approximate Word count = 899
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
Category: English
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