The Company of Women (1981) is a novel by American author Mary Gordon.
It is a coming-of-age story that details the sheltered upbringing of a well-educated Catholic girl named Felicitas, and how her values are challenged and altered by the turbulence of the 1960s protest movement.
The book earned Gordon a second Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize.
[1] Father Cyprian is a Catholic priest whose parishioners include five women.
Among them is a child, Felicitas Maria Taylor, a serious-minded girl with no use for boys, dating, or fun.