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Barbara Pym: Excellent Women (1988) No rating

Excellent Women, the second published novel by Barbara Pym, first appeared from Jonathan Cape in …

The Excellent Women are those - in this context - who quietly get on, in a volunteer capacity, with the myriad of small jobs needed to keep an organisation like a church running. In the 1950s these would have been almost entirely women - but also those who were not unable to perform this role due to needs of employment or domestic duties.