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      Excellent Women

      by Barbara Pym
      Published
      Sep 1978
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      Excellent Women is probably the most famous of Barbara Pym's novels. The acclaim a few years ago for this early comic novel, which was hailed by Lord David Cecil as one of 'the finest examples of high comedy to have appeared in England during the past seventy-five years,' helped launch the rediscovery of the author's entire work. Mildred Lathbury is a clergyman's daughter and a spinster in the England of the 1950s, one of those 'excellent women' who tend to get involved in other people's lives - such as those of her new neighbor, Rockingham, and the vicar next door. This is Barbara Pym's world at its funniest.

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      First Edition Sep 1978 Dutton ISBN13 9780525101161 ISBN10 0525101160
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      Dec 2000 Vintage (UK) ISBN13 9780099767015 ISBN10 0099767015
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      Jun 2022 Little, Brown (UK) ISBN13 9780349016078 ISBN10 0349016070
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      May 1988 Turtleback Books ISBN13 9781417624133 ISBN10 1417624132
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      May 1985 G.K. Hall & Company ISBN13 9780816138395 ISBN10 0816138397
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