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Jane and Prudence
''Jane and Prudence'' is a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1953 and, according to the novelist Jilly Cooper, her finest work - "full of wit, plotting, characterization and miraculous observation".〔"If you want a great read Barbara Pym will fix it" - article in "Seven" p3, ''Sunday Telegraph'' Issue 2,425 (dated 3 December 2007)〕
==Plot summary==
Jane, a vicar's wife, lives a very different kind of life from her friend, the single and independent Prudence. The book details the period in Nicholas and Jane’s life when they take over a new parish in an (anonymous) English village and encounter the widower Fabian Driver, who Jane decides will make an excellent husband for Prudence.〔For an evaluation of this setting see ''Chapter 4 Jane and Prudence'' in "Reading Barbara Pym" Donato,D. Ch 4 pp81-101 Maddison, N.J Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003 ISBN 0-8386-4095-8〕 Prudence has an imponderable attraction to her older and completely impervious employer, the head of an unspecified academic foundation. There is, however, competition for Fabian - Miss Morrow, another spinster in the parish who seeks escape from her low-paid job as a companion to the domineering Miss Doggett.
Miss Morrow and Miss Doggett also appear in Pym's posthumously-published novel, ''Crampton Hodnet'', which had been written in the late 1930s; the character of Miss Morrow is distinctly different in ''Jane and Prudence'', as is that of Barbara Bird, also re-used from ''Crampton Hodnet''.〔(Yvonne Cocking, "Jane and Prudence: a Novel of Contrasts", Paper presented at the 14th North American Conference of the Barbara Pym Society Cambridge, Massachusetts, 17–18 March 2012. Accessed 13 February 2013 )〕
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