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My description of Barbara Pym as ‘the Jane Austen de nos jours’ has been widely quoted, and I have been asked to elaborate on that theme. To deal with it fully is a job beyond me, and I have no wish to pose as a literary critic. So I propose to concentrate on one main aspect of their work: their relation to the society of their times, and their rendering of each.
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Rowse, A.L. (1987). Miss Pym and Miss Austen. In: Salwak, D. (eds) The Life and Work of Barbara Pym. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08538-5_9
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