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Selina Redwood
Dorothy Markham is one of the May of Teck girls. She is the working-class niece of Lady Julia Markham, who serves as chairwoman on the May of Teck Club’s management committee. Dorothy is a slim girl, and one of few who can effortlessly fit through the slit window in the lavatory. After the fire breaks out, Dorothy is the first girl to climb out the skylight window once firemen manage to break through. When she emerges on the roof, her hair white from dust and rubble, she looks “curiously like her aunt, Lady Julia.”
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Dorothy Markham Character Timeline in The Girls of Slender Means
The timeline below shows where the character Dorothy Markham appears in The Girls of Slender Means. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1
In the present, Columnist Jane Wright is on the phone with Dorothy Markham , owner of a successful modeling agency. (Jane and Dorothy are both former May of...
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Chapter 3
...scene, after Jane has retired to her room to work on her brain-work. Two girls— Dorothy Markham and Nancy Riddle— have just returned from a visit home. Dorothy Markham is the niece...
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From her bedroom, Jane overhears cheers as Dorothy Markham successfully fits through the slit window. Dorothy is slim and shapeless but intends to marry...
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Chapter 8
At last, the firemen break through the skylight. A ladder drops through. Dorothy Markham is the first out. She “look[s] haggard and curiously like her aunt, Lady Julia” when...
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