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Title	:	Excellent Women
Author	:	Barbara Pym
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 231 pages
Published	:	December 26th 2006 by Penguin Classics (first published 1952)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. European Literature. British Literature. Humor

Excellent Women

Barbara Pym

Paperback | Pages: 231 pages

Rating: 3.92 | 10218 Users | 1494 Reviews

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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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Original Title:	Excellent Women
ISBN:	014310487X (ISBN13: 9780143104872)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Mildred Lathbury, Helena Napier, Rockingham Napier, Everard Bone, Julian Malory, Winifred Malory, Allegra Gray, Dora Caldicote, William Caldicote, Sister Blatt, Esther Clovis
Setting:	London, England(United Kingdom)

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This review first appeared on my blog Shoulda Coulda Woulda Books.Awhile ago, I asked for recommendations for books that take place in small villages. I'd just done a re-read of Emma and followed that up with An Accomplished Woman, and I was really enjoying the scale of the worlds and the consequent depth of observation that this allowed for- which is why I asked for more. One that came up a couple of times but hadn't made it to the top yet was Excellent Women by Barbara Pym. I wish that I had

I really enjoyed this. It's like Jane Austen but set in the 1950s - very witty, but at times tinged with sadness.

3.5 stars. Excellent women, in Barbara Pyms world at least, are the observers of life, the reliable, sensible, polite, supportive, churchgoing, community-minded, UNMARRIED ladies generally taken for granted by men and often called dear. Frankly, if you ask me, these London ladies need to trade their insane amounts of tea for three fingers of Evan Williams now and again. They all need to let their hair down a little. Mildred Lathbury is the daughter of an old country clergyman. Shes

With a sweetness reminiscent of Edith Wharton's gorgeous classic "The Age of Innocence," "Excellent Women" is proof, not solely of female excellence, but of the overall human goodness. Nothing short of miraculous, this novel about a wallflower who knows just how shitty men can often treat their counterparts, & how with much ease the ill treatment is endured, is both a classic & a must! I have never read a more compassionate or sympathetic voice, like that of our heroine's. Also, the

Had high hopes for my first Barbara Pym book, but unfortunately not for me.

Stick on the kettle, put up your feet and settle into your favourite armchair with this cosy, post-WW II English novel. Barbara Pyms world is one of brown-clad spinsters, nuns on bicycles and vicars who live with their sisters. The foreword in my beautiful Virago Modern Classics edition was written by Alexander McCall Smith, and I now see where he got much of his inspiration for his 44 Scotland Street series.The book is the literary equivalent of an English (pre-war) village with its small

Warm, witty and wonderful. Pym gives us glimpses of human nature with all its flaws, but with such sympathy that we cannot help but love her characters. The best novels help us to develop our empathy, or what Eliot called "fellow-feeling," toward mankind. Such books teach us to be as forgiving of the flaws of the characters as we are of our own flaws, and so learn empathy toward real people. This is one of those rare books. It presents glimpses of humanity so close to us that we will smile in