Pym, Barbara

Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties to academics and acting as watchdog of the morals of North Oxford. Anthea, her niece, is in love with a dashing upper-class undergraduate. Of this,...

Set in a provincial university, the story is narrated by Caro Grimstone, the wife of Alan, a rising anthropologist. Caro becomes the means by which Alan obtains a manuscript that will advance his r...