Jane and Prudence
By: Barbara Pym
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Windsor/Paragon
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781405686143; 9781405686150
Subjects: Spouses of clergy; Single women; Female friendship; Fiction
Description: Jane's husband is the newly appointed vicar in an English village. Prudence will pay Jane a visit and find herself courted by a fatuous young widower. Prudence, at twenty-nine, has achieved nothing in life but a dull research job in London and a string of dud affairs; Jane, now in her forties, was Prudence's tutor at Oxford. Jane cheerfully concedes that she is an incompetent housewife, but she hopes that the move to a rural parish may transform her into a Trollopean vicar's wife, as well as a crafty matchmaker.
Notes: Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1953.