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Barbara Pym
by Jane Nardin; Twayne&#;s English Authors Series, Twayne Publishers,
Barbara Pym
by Robert Emmet Long; Ungar Publishing,
Something to Love: Barbara Pym&#;s Novels
by Diana Benet; University of Missouri Press,
The Pleasure of Miss Pym
by Charles Burkhart; University of Texas Press,
The World of Barbara Pym
by Janice Rossen; Palgrave Macmillan,
The Life and Work of Barbara Pym
edited by Dale Salwak; University of Iowa Press,
One Little Room an Everywhere: The Novels of Barbara Pym
by Lotus Snow; Puckerbrush Press,
Independent Women: The Function of Gender in the Novels of Barbara Pym
edited by Janice Rossen; St. Martin&#;s Press,
The Barbara Pym Cookbook
by Hilary Pym and Honor Wyatt; E.P. Dutton,
Published in the U.K. as à la Pym: The Barbara Pym Cookery Book, Prospect Books,
The Novels of Barbara Pym
by Katherine Anne Ackley; Garland Publishing,
A Mind at Ease: Barbara Pym and Her Novels
by Robert Liddell; Peter Owen,
Barb • English novelist (–) Barbara Mary Crampton PymFRSL (2 June – 11 January ) was an English novelist. In the s she published a series of social comedies, of which the best known are Excellent Women () and A Glass of Blessings (). In her career was revived when the critic Lord David Cecil and the poet Philip Larkin both nominated her as the most underrated writer of the century. Her novel Quartet in Autumn () was nominated for the Booker Prize that year, and she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Barbara Mary Crampton Pym was born on 2 June at 72 Willow Street[1] in Oswestry, Shropshire, the elder daughter of Irena Spenser, née Thomas (–) and Frederic Crampton Pym (–), a solicitor.[2] She was educated at Queen's Park School, a girls' school in Oswestry. From the age of 12, she attended Huyton College, nära Liverpool. Pym's parents were active in the local Oswestry operatic soc • Barbara Mary Crampton Pym was born to Frederic Crampton Pym, a solicitor, and Irena Spenser Pym (née Thomas) on 2 June , in Oswestry, Shropshire, on the Welsh border. Barbara's sister Hilary was born there in Since Irena Pym was assistant organist at the parish church of St. Oswald, entertaining vicars and curates became part of Pym family life, and would later provide Barbara with some of her most enduring and endearing characters. At the age of sixteen, inspired by Aldous Huxley's Crome Yellow, Barbara attempted her first novel, Young Men in Fancy Dress, an unpublished work that is now housed in the Pym Archives at the Bodleian Library. Her dedication in the manuscript reads: 'To H.D.M.G., who kindly informed me that inom had the making of a style of my own.' In , Barbara entered St Hilda's College, Oxford. Excerpts from her notebooks and detailed diaries, published as A Very Private Eye, document her Oxford years. It was here that Barbara read English liter
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