Excellent Women
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym, published by Penguin on December 26, 2006, is a reprint edition comprising 256 pages. This novel centers on Mildred Lathbury, a clergyman’s daughter and a mild-mannered spinster navigating life in 1950s England. Through her experiences, the book offers a comedic exploration of the lives of “excellent women,” who are often overlooked yet play pivotal roles in their communities.
Readers will find a rich tapestry of social interactions as Mildred becomes involved with her new neighbors, including anthropologist Helena Napier and her charismatic husband, Rocky, along with Julian Malory, the local vicar. The narrative presents a series of vignettes that capture the complexities of human relationships and the subtleties of societal expectations, all while maintaining a satirical tone. Excellent Women delves into themes of fiction and satire, making it a notable addition to the literary canon.
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“The finest introduction to Barbara Pym” (The New York Times): a hilarious comedy of manners by the shrewdly observant British novelist often compared to Jane Austen
One of Barbara Pym’s richest and most amusing high comedies, Excellent Women has at its center Mildred Lathbury, 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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