Less than Angels (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Mary Crampton
- First Published: 1955
- Type of Work: Comedy of manners
- Time of Work: The 1950’s
- Setting: London, its suburbs, and the English countryside
- Principal Characters: Catherine Oliphant, Tom Mallow, Deirdre Swan, Alaric Lydgate
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Social realism, Domestic realism, Comedy of manners
- Subjects: 1950’s, Culture, Africa or Africans, Journalism or journalists, Colonialism, Love or romance, Gender roles, Authors or writers, Social issues, Manners or customs, Social life, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Novelists, Upper classes, London, Lifestyles, Anthropology or anthropologists, Students or student life, Research
- Locales: London, England
The Novel
Less than Angels, like Barbara Pym’s other novels, is preeminently successful at creating a small world peopled with characters whose prosaic lives become interesting, even fascinating, because of the perspective from which they are presented. Here, the heart of the microcosm is the Learned Society, a fashionably situated London center for the social and intellectual pursuits of a group of established and aspiring anthropologists. Pym takes her readers from this center to Catherine Oliphant’s flat on the “shabby side” of Regent’s Park; to bourgeois...
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