Editing Some Tame Gazelle (section)

==Reception==
The novel received several positive reviews. The ''[[Manchester Guardian]]'' called it "an enchanting book about village life", and [[Antonia White]] reviewed the novel for the ''[[New Statesman]]'' thus:<ref>Holt 1990, p.155</ref>
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|text= (Pym) keeps her design so perfectly to scale, and places one mild tint in such happy juxtaposition to another that this reader ... derived considerable pleasure from it.
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It has been considered a remarkable first novel, because of the way in which the youthful Pym — who began the book when she was 21 — imagined herself into the situation of a middle-aged spinster, living with her sister in the country.<ref>[http://www.barbara-pym.org/STG.html Barbara Pym Society]</ref> The poet [[Philip Larkin]] regarded ''Some Tame Gazelle'' as Pym's ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'' <ref>Holt 1990, p.219</ref>