I have just started to make acquaintance with the novels of Barbara Pym. I had not realised what a wicked sense of humour she had, but even so it is no wonder we had a women’s liberation movement when you consider the lives of her typical heroine – an Oxford graduate in mid twentieth century England.
I was amused by the fact that more than one character in Jane & Prudence makes subversive reference to John Donne’s new found America.
