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Barbara Mary Crampton Pym FRSL (2 June 1913 – 11 January 1980) was an English novelist. In the 1950s she published a series of social comedies, of which the best known are Excellent Women (1952) and A Glass of Blessings (1958).
Barbara Pym originally outlined the novel in one of her notebooks, where it is headed "A full life", the phrase on which the book's eventual final chapter closes. Another partial draft was begun in February 1949, this time headed "No life of one's own", which relates to Mildred's reflections on how others perceive spinsterhood. There is also a ...
Some Tame Gazelle is Barbara Pym's first novel, originally published in 1950.. The title of the book is taken from the poem "Something to Love" by Thomas Haynes Bayly, [1] and the work of other English poets is frequently referenced during the course of the story.
A Lot To Ask: A Life of Barbara Pym is a 1990 biography of the English novelist Barbara Pym.The author, Hazel Holt, worked with Pym in the 1950s at the International African Institute in London before embarking on her own literary career.
Reviews of A Few Green Leaves were more mixed than its immediate predecessors, Quartet in Autumn and The Sweet Dove Died, which had been successful.The New York Times regarded the novel as equal to anything Pym had previously written [11] and Penelope Fitzgerald - reviewing for the London Review of Books - found it to be the work of a "brilliant comic writer". [12]
After Pym's death, her literary executors were her sister, Hilary Pym, and her good friend and fellow novelist Hazel Holt. They aimed to release much of Pym's unpublished material. This included three complete novels, An Unsuitable Attachment, Crampton Hodnet and An Academic Question. Pym's notebooks and diaries were published in 1984.
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In 1990, Hazel Holt published A Lot To Ask: A Life of Barbara Pym, her biography of Pym. The two books are designed to complement each other; thus, Holt focuses much of her time on the years 1950–1962, filling out the gaps in the text of A Very Private Eye. Heavily featured are letters between Pym and the poet Philip Larkin. The two authors ...