Editing Excellent Women (section)

==Title==
The phrase "excellent women" appears frequently throughout the novel, and is often used by men<ref name=McCall/> in reference to the kind of women who perform small but meaningful duties in the service of churches and voluntary organisations and are taken for granted. The phrase first appears in Pym's early unpublished novel ''[[Civil to Strangers]]'' and is taken from [[Jane Austen]]'s novel ''[[Sanditon]]''.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://barbara-pym.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Cannon_AGM15.pdf|author=Cannon, Catriona|title=Whatever we hereafter write, 'tis thy Posterity'|journal=Green Leaves: The Journal of the Barbara Pym Society|issue=Autumn 2015|page=5}}</ref>