A Girl of Slender Means

I like the absurdity of taking a famous persons name. I like absurdity. I wanted my photographs to have a "spark", a surprise, something unexpected.
My parents bookshelves contained a lot of mid century British literature, which, as a teenager, I worked my way through. She wasn't my favourite, but I didn't want to be GeraldDurrell, StellaGibbons or DHLawrence.
She was Scottish/but not quite Scottish, (like me) unsettled and unsettling, with her pale Bette Davis eyes. Not quite sure if I'd have liked to meet her.
I don't actually own any of her books, (most of my "reading" is done through Audible these days) so I went to the Oxfam bookshop to find one. They had a couple on the shelf, (in the extra) but in the end I liked the window display more. That paper decoration is fab, though sadly not for sale.

Love the challenge and looking forward to seeing everyone else's entries.