Excellent Women
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Year: 1980
Jacket design and illustration: Fred Marcellino
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Edition: First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780060805128
Comments:
Fred was a big fan of Barbara Pym, and loved designing jackets for her novels. They usually dealt with British women of a certain age, lonely, intimidated, and irretrievably polite at all costs. Her work is often described as updated Jane Austen, as his illustration suggests.