Excellent Women
Excellent Women
Author: Barbara Pym
Desc: 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.