NMLP P-045229 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
Excellent Women
Barbara Pym · Jonathan Cape (London) · 1952
Jonathan Cape (London) 1952 is the true first; no American edition appeared for over two decades — eight US publishers declined the manuscript in the early 1950s — until E.P. Dutton (New York) issued the first American edition in 1978 amid Pym's rediscovery. The Cape first is the only period edition.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-045229 for "Excellent Women" by Barbara Pym (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-045229, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).