Jane and Prudence is the third novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1953. Jane Cleveland, aged 41, is married to a clergyman who has recently taken...
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Barbara Pym (section Rediscovery and final years)
novel, Excellent Women (1952), was well received, but her third, Jane and Prudence (1953), received more mixed reviews. Her fourth novel, Less than Angels...
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from Oxford, vicar's wife Jane Cleveland: together the heroines of Barbara Pym's eponymous 1953 novel Jane and Prudence Prudence Bell, the female lead in...
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Pym's characters often reappear or are referenced in later novels. In Jane and Prudence (1953), one of the characters mentions that "nice Miss Lathbury" has...
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Wilmet and Rodney. Prudence is a friend of Eleanor Hitchens (a very minor character in Jane and Prudence), who works in the same ministry as Rodney, and he...
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some of them; Sophia and Penelope seemed to recall Jane and Prudence, and Mark Nicholas; Mervyn has something of Arthur Grampian, and of course we have been...
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Jane Seymour OBE (born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg; 15 February 1951) is a British actress. After making her screen debut as an uncredited teenage...
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Crampton Hodnet (section Reception and analysis)
unpublished, Pym re-used the characters of Miss Doggett and Jessie Morrow in her 1953 novel Jane and Prudence and in the short story So, Some Tempestuous Morn which...
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book is taken from the poem "Something to Love" by Thomas Haynes Bayly, and the work of other English poets is frequently referenced during the course...
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Dear Prudence is a Hallmark Channel original made-for-TV movie starring Jane Seymour. The movie premiered August 23, 2008, and was to be a pilot that...
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film To Live and Die in L.A..[citation needed] She then became somewhat visible as the flighty record company employee Blue (née Prudence Anne Bartlett)...
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from Africa and lives next-door to Deirdre and her family. A sub-plot involves the activities of Deirdre's fellow-students Mark and Digby, and their attempts...
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Mainwaring, thirty two and recently jilted, works on ‘the dustier fringes of the academic world’, as a proofreader, indexer and occasional researcher....
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death notice of Fabian Driver, one of the main characters in Jane and Prudence. The older doctor, "Doctor G.", is the brother of "Father G." from Quartet...
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Sense and Sensibility (working title; Elinor and Marianne) is the first novel by the English author Jane Austen, published in 1811. It was published anonymously:...
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the seventh novel by British writer and editor Barbara Pym to be published, appearing in 1977. Highly praised and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, its...
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Civil to Strangers (section Gervase and Flora)
novel, Jane and Prudence. The Christmas Visit – commissioned for The Church Times in December 1978. This novel features the characters of Mark and Sophia...
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Deborah Kerr (redirect from Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer)
Deborah Jane Trimmer (30 September 1921 – 16 October 2007), known professionally as Deborah Kerr (/kɑːr/), was a Scottish actress. She was nominated six...
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Strangers and Rodney and Wilmet Forsyth in A Glass of Blessings. In addition there are the unmarried Prudence Bates' older friends, Nicholas and Jane Cleveland...
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1953 in literature (section Children and young people)
Paton – Too Late the Phalarope Mervyn Peake – Mr Pye Barbara Pym – Jane and Prudence Ellery Queen – The Scarlet Letters Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings – The...
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Jane P Booker (born 9 May 1956) is an English actress. She was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, and has over 40 television roles to her credit...
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ever since his wife Prudence left him for Los Angeles Kings goaltender Jacques "Lè Coq" Grandé. Jane is a big fan of Pitka's and offers him $2 million...
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Margaret Jane Pauley (born October 31, 1950) is an American television host and author, active in news reporting since 1972. She first became widely known...
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Christie. Their full names are Thomas Beresford and his wife Prudence (née Cowley). Tommy and Tuppence first appeared in Christie's The Secret Adversary...
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Prudence Millinery designs and makes couture hats for major designers all over the world. Prudence was born in New-York, USA. A graduate of New York's...
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Eyre, an attractive and elegant, but essentially selfish, middle-aged woman, becomes friendly with antique dealer Humphrey Boyce and his nephew James. Both...
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A Very Private Eye (section Context and reception)
A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters is a 1984 publication of writings by the English novelist Barbara Pym. Released after Pym's...
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Joe Anderson (actor) (section Awards and nominations)
an English actor and singer best known for his work in Across the Universe, Becoming Jane, Control, The Ruins, The Crazies, Horns and as Alistair in The...
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Lucy Briers (category Actors from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham)
Lucy Jane Briers is an English actress. Her film, stage and television roles have included appearances in Pride and Prejudice (1995) and sitcom Game On...
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À La Pym (section Context and critical reception)
United States as The Barbara Pym Cookbook) is a 1988 cookbook by Hilary Pym and Honor Wyatt collecting recipes for meals served, or mentioned, in the novels...
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