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Indeed, Excellent Women had to wait until E.P. Dutton published it in the US in 1978. The novelist John Updike, reviewing it then, wrote that: [8] Excellent Women... is a startling reminder that solitude may be chosen, and that a lively, full novel can be constructed entirely within the precincts of that regressive virtue: feminine patience.
Barbara Mary Crampton Pym FRSL (2 June 1913 – 11 January 1980) was an English novelist. In the 1950s she published a series of social comedies, of which the best known are Excellent Women (1952) and A Glass of Blessings (1958).
Jane and Prudence was Pym's third novel, published by Jonathan Cape in 1953. Whereas Pym's first two novels had been successful, this received more mixed reviews. Literary figures Lady Cynthia Asquith and Lord David Cecil both championed the novel, but The Guardian felt it was "a horrid disappointment after Excellent Women" and the Times Literary Supplement remarked that the plot was "not easy ...
Number of books Nationality William Shakespeare: 2 billion [1] 4 billion [2] English: Plays and poetry, e.g. Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Hamlet: 42 British: Agatha Christie: 2 billion [3] 4 billion [2] English Whodunits, including the Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot series 86 British Barbara Cartland: 500 million [4] 1 billion [5] English ...
The Women's Prize for Fiction (previously called Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 & 2009–12), Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–2008) and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014–2017)) is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes, [4] [5] [6] annually awarded to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English ...
Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American short story writer, novelist and photographer who wrote about the American South.Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973.
The New York Times' 100 Best Books of the 21st Century is a ranked list of the 100 best novels published in the English language since January 1, 2000. Selection criteria [ edit ]
Quartet in Autumn is a novel by British novelist Barbara Pym, first published in 1977. It was highly praised and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the top literary prize in the UK. [1] This was considered a comeback novel for Pym; she had fallen out of favour as styles changed, and her work had been rejected by publishers for 15 years.