| Jane and Prudence | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Barbara Pym |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Jonathan Cape |
| Publication date | 1953 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 222 pp (hardback edition) |
| ISBN | 9781844084494[1] |
| OCLC Number | 166627476 |
Jane and Prudence is a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1953 and according to the novelist Jilly Cooper her finest work “ full of wit, plotting, characterization and miraculous observation"[2]
Contents |
Jane, a vicar's wife, lives a very different kind of life from her friend, the single and independent Prudence. The book details the period in Nicholas and Jane’s life when they take over a new parish in an (anonymous) English village and encounter the widower Fabian Driver, who Jane decides will make an excellent husband for Prudence.[3] Prudence has an imponderable attraction to her older and completely impervious employer, the head of an unspecified academic foundation. There is, however, competition for Fabian - Miss Morrow, another spinster in the parish who seeks escape from her low-paid job as a companion to the domineering Miss Doggett.