- Single women, Fiction in English, Self-esteem in women, London
The lightly satiric focus is on loneliness bravely borne, the bearing-up being done by that excellent woman Mildred Lathbury, a 30-something spinster in the lingering post-WWII rationing of the early 1950s.
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Classical in form, contemplative, character-led and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Barbara Pym
- First published
- 1952
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Piper, Cape, Harper & Row
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780143104872
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