Excellent Women, the second published novel by Barbara Pym, first appeared from Jonathan Cape in 1952.[1] A novel of manners, it is generally acclaimed as her funniest and most successful in that genre.[2]
^Beth Gutcheon, "An Excellent Woman",The Hudson Review, May 2022
ExcellentWomen, the second published novel by Barbara Pym, first appeared from Jonathan Cape in 1952. A novel of manners, it is generally acclaimed as...
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published a series of social comedies, of which the best known are ExcellentWomen (1952) and A Glass of Blessings (1958). In 1977 her career was revived...
examples include Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, Barbara Pym's ExcellentWomen, Douglas Carter Beane's As Bees in Honey Drown, The Country Club, and...
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Barbara Pym used St Gabriel's Church as her inspiration for St Mary's in ExcellentWomen. The area is the home of Francis Urquhart in Michael Dobbs's 1989 novel...
novel, but The Guardian felt it was "a horrid disappointment after ExcellentWomen" and the Times Literary Supplement remarked that the plot was "not...
morocco-bound copy of the work, and Guy reflects on his favorite passages. In ExcellentWomen by Barbara Pym, the sad, spinsterish church-lady, Mildred Lathbury...
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and her detachment." Several characters from Pym's earlier novel ExcellentWomen reappear, including Mildred Lathbury, Rocky Napier, Everard Bone, and...
with a look of alarm on her face." Julian and Winifred Malory from ExcellentWomen (1952) are also mentioned in A Glass of Blessings, as well as Rocky...
character who had appeared in three previous Pym novels starting with ExcellentWomen. The memorial service is seen from the point of view of Caro Grimstone...
were intended for a primarily female audience. Fordyce was considered an excellent orator, and his collection of sermons found a ready audience among English...
questioning them. The novel has been seen as a "companion novel" to Pym's ExcellentWomen "because of its continued focus on the plight of the spinster". The...
Wilf Bason from A Glass of Blessings, and several characters from ExcellentWomen including Esther Clovis, Everard Bone, his wife Mildred and his mother...
recur in minor roles in later novels. Archdeacon Hoccleve featured in ExcellentWomen and A Glass of Blessings. Harriet Bede reappeared in An Unsuitable...
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Scorer and MVP 2013 All-Japan High School Championship - Excellent Player Award 2013 FIVB Women's U23 Volleyball World Championship in Tijuana, Mexico -...
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the Werner-von-Siemens-Ring foundation 2014 Lise-Meitner Award for ExcellentWomen in Computer Science from the Max Planck Society "Department of Computer...
Sajayan and Suraj Venjaramoodu are excellent in this hard-hitting take on the sheer drudgery of everyday life, that many women go through. Sajin Shrijith of...
history, women in Iran have played numerous roles, and contributed in many ways, to Iranian society. Historically, tradition maintained that women be confined...
Guardian. 6 September 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2019. "ExcellentWomen – Life Drawing at the Women of the World Festival". Making the Marrow. 24 March 2014...
with the conservatorship and she told the court that she was “receiving excellent care” from her husband. The couple made a public appearance several weeks...