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Barbara pym biography autobiography similarities

          Paula Byrne's expansive new biography of Barbara Pym captures, in part, the odd amalgam of pathos, sentiment, and grinding ambition that marks Pym's life and.

        1. Barbara Pym was an English novelist, a recorder of post-World War II upper middle-class life, whose elegant and satiric comedies of manners.
        2. JVeading a biography of a minor celebrity, Barbara Pym notes: "Made me laugh?people lying ill in the Dorchester and dying in Claridges.
        3. Both writers are preoccupied with religious practice and meaning.
        4. Pym formed life-long friendships, many involving copious correspondence.

          5. JVeading a biography of a minor celebrity, Barbara Pym notes: "Made me laugh?people lying ill in the Dorchester and dying in Claridges.!

          Excellent Women

          Novel by Barbara Pym

          First edition

          AuthorBarbara Pym
          LanguageEnglish
          PublisherJonathan Cape

          Publication date

          		1952
          Publication placeUnited Kingdom
          Media typePrint (Hardback)
          Pages256 p.

          (hardback edition)

          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]

          Title

          The phrase "excellent women" appears frequently throughout the novel, and is often used by men[3] in reference to the kind of women who perform small but meaningful duties in the service of churches and voluntary organisations and are taken for granted.

          The phrase first appears in Pym's early unpublished novel Civil to Strangers and is taken from Jane Austen's novel Sanditon.[4]

          Plot summary

          The book is a first-person narrative in which Mildred Lathbu