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Exemplary Ladies is among Barbara Pym’s most humorous large and wealthiest comedies. Mildred Lathbury is just a clergyman’s child and a mild mannered spinster in 1950s England. She's some of those “excellent women,” the wise, encouraging, repressed women who men ignore. As Mildred gets involved in the lives of her fresh neighbors—anthropologist Helena Napier and her fine, dashing man, Rocky, and Julian Malory, the vicar next door—the book provides a number of pictures of individual existence as really, and pluckily, resided in a disappearing world of ways and repressed wishes.