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Book
Title:
Some tame gazelle
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ISBN:
9780525241782

9780224016490

9781844085798

9781559212649
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : E.P. Dutton, 1983.
Physical Description:
252 pages ; 22 cm
Summary:
This is the first novel by Barbara Pym and is also an ode to her friends and family. The story centers on Belinda and Harriet Bede, (Barbara herself and her sister, Hilary.) Archdeacon Hoccleve, a married clergyman for whom Belinda has long nurtured a passion, is believed to be based on Pym's first love, Henry Harvey. In the course of the book, both sisters receive proposals of marriage which they feel obliged to reject, partly because they are not attracted to the men in question, but mainly because they are so used to living together and have become devoted to one another. They remain spinsters living quietly in the country.
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