Excellent Women

Name: Excellent Women
Author: Barbara Pym

by Barbara Pym

Novel of a spinster whose life takes surprising turns amid parish social entanglements

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Barbara Pym

Pym was a comic novelist of English spinsters and clergymen whose acute social observation and dry irony earned her comparison with Austen. Excellent Women and A Glass of Blessings are her finest works.

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