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Excellent Women

by Barbara Pym

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Excellent Women is one of Barbara Pym’s richest and most amusing high comedies. Mildred Lathbury is a clergyman’s daughter and a mild-mannered spinster in 1950s England. She is one of those “excellent women,” the smart, supportive, repressed women who men take for granted. As Mildred gets embroiled in the lives of her new neighbors—anthropologist Helena Napier and her handsome, dashing husband, Rocky, and Julian Malory, the vicar next door—the novel presents a series of snapshots of human life as actually, and pluckily, lived in a vanishing world of manners and repressed desires.

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About the Author

Barbara Pym (1913–1980) was a British novelist best known for her series of satirical novels on English middle-class society.

A. N. Wilson is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a prize-winning scholar and author.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780143104872
Author:
Pym, Barbara
Publisher:
Penguin Classics
Introduction by:
Wilson, A. N.
Introduction:
Wilson, A. N.
Author:
Wilson, A. N.
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Single women
Subject:
Self-esteem in women
Subject:
England
Subject:
Psychological fiction
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Edition Description:
Mass Market
Publication Date:
20061226
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
from 12
Language:
English
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
7.66x5.14x.47 in. .40 lbs.
Age Level:
from 18
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