Excellent Women
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Excellent Women, the second published novel by Barbara Pym, first appeared from Jonathan Cape in 1952. A novel of manners, it is generally acclaimed as her funniest and most successful in that genre.
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An Academic Question
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An Academic Question is the title given an unfinished novel by Barbara Pym, written in the early 1970s. A reconstructed version was published posthumously in 1986.
Excellent Women
…who will feature in the novels Less Than Angels and An Unsuitable Attachment, and whose funeral service will appear from different perspectives in both An Academic Question and A Few Green Leaves. The character of Archdeacon Hoccleve in Excellent Women had previously played a larger role in Pym's first novel, Some Tame…
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