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Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym, romancière) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Jane and Prudence about?
The setting of this very funny novel, one of Barbara Pym's earliest, is an English village, where Jane's husband is the newly appointed vicar, and where 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. There are many comic complications as Jane learns that matchmaking has as many pitfalls as does housewifery.
Who reads Jane and Prudence?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Barbara Pym, romancière)
- Publisher
- Grafton Books
- Published
- 1981
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780586053706
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.86 / 5 (267 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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