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Jane and Prudence by Pym, Barbara is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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?

Author

Pym, Barbara

Publisher

New York: Perennial Library

Published

1982

Language

EN

ISBN

9780525136408

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.86 / 5 (267 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14