A Glass of Blessings (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Barbara Pym
- First Published: 1958
- Type of Work: Comic realism
- Time of Work: The mid-1950’s
- Setting: London and its environs
- Principal Characters: Wilmet Forsyth, Rodney Forsyth, Sibyl Forsyth, Arnold Root, Mary Beamlsh, Marlus Ransome, Rowena Talbott, Harry Talbott, Piers Longridge
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Self-discovery, Love or romance, Friendship, Women’s issues, Women, London, Catholics or Catholic Church, Priests
- Locales: London, England
The Novel
A Glass of Blessings begins and ends in one place, at the Anglo-Catholic church of St. Luke in the select West London neighborhood called Holland Park. As the novel opens on the feast day of St. Luke, Wilmet Forsyth notices her old acquaintance Piers Longridge at the church she has recently started attending. The story ends approximately a year later. Wilmet, now firmly established in the “charmed circle” of regular members, comes back with her fellow parishioners from seeing Father Marius Ransome instated as a suburban vicar and turns her thoughts and...
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