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About Excellent Women

Barbara Pym's Excellent Women (1952) is narrated by Mildred Lathbury, a clergyman's daughter in her thirties who lives alone in a London flat and is perpetually enlisted by the people around her to be useful in ways she has not chosen. One of the great comic novels in the English tradition, often compared to Jane Austen in its dry social precision and wit.

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