Some Tame Gazelle

Name: Some Tame Gazelle
Author: Barbara Pym

by Barbara Pym

Novel of two schoolmistresses' lifelong affection and their complicated romantic 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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Excellent WomenNovel of a spinster whose life takes surprising turns amid parish social entanglements
A Glass of BlessingsNovel of a widow drawn into a dangerous romantic entanglement within church society
Quartet in AutumnNovel of four elderly unmarried Londoners facing retirement and social irrelevance
The Sweet Dove DiedNovel of a widow's unrequited love for a younger man who remains emotionally unavailable