I don’t know if you’ve read much Barabara Pym. I haven’t, and in fact I’ve read only one other of her novels, The Sweet Dove Died, which came out the year following this one. I mention this because her career basically worked in two different segments–from 1950 to 1961, in which she published six novels including her most famous Excellent Women and then again from 1977-1980 where she published three more, but with that long gap in between. Additionally, she died of cancer in 1980, and her final […]