The Girls of Slender Means

Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia

First published by Macmillan 1963 Published in Penguin Books 1966 Copyright © Muriel Spark, 1963

The verses from ‘Moonlit Apples’, The Collected Poems of John Drinkwater, are quoted by permission of Sidgwick and Jackson, Ltd

Made and printed in Great Britain by Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd, Aylesbury, Bucks

Set in Linotype Baskerville

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