Excellent Women (Penguin Classics) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Excellent Women (Penguin Classics) Sunday, August 2 2009.

• 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.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Excellent Women (Penguin Classics) Friday, July 24 2009.

• Added a contributor: Barbara Pym: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Excellent Women (Penguin Classics) Thursday, July 16 2009.

• AH, you ladies! Always on the spot when there's something happening!