Civil to Strangers and Other Writings is a collection of novels and short stories by Barbara Pym, published posthumously. When Pym died in 1980, she had...

another novel, Civil to Strangers, in 1936 and several novellas in the following years, which were collectively published as Civil to Strangers after Pym's...

granted. The phrase first appears in Pym's early unpublished novel Civil to Strangers and is taken from Jane Austen's novel Sanditon. The book is a first-person...

novels – Some Tame Gazelle and Civil to Strangers – already. By April 1940, Pym had finished Crampton Hodnet and sent it to close friends for their comments...

interaction with strangers. Civil inattention is required to avoid the otherwise problematic encounters between strangers in an urban culture, to behave with...

led to their separation. While Viola seems keen to renew their connection, Aylwin assiduously avoids her. Dulcie too finds herself attracted to him....

in Autumn was the seventh novel by British writer and editor Barbara Pym to be published, appearing in 1977. Highly praised and shortlisted for the Booker...

published in 1950. The title of the book is taken from the poem "Something to Love" by Thomas Haynes Bayly, and the work of other English poets is frequently...

contact. In the process of civil inattention, strangers in close proximity, such as a crowd, avoid eye contact in order to help maintain their privacy...

commissioned by the Church Times in 1978. The story was later collected in Civil to Strangers (1987). The novel was adapted for BBC Radio 4 in 10 15-minute episodes...

commissioned by The New Yorker, which is collected in the volume Civil to Strangers. 'Mrs Ainger' (Sophia) from An Unsuitable Attachment is mentioned...

Cleveland, aged 41, is married to a clergyman who has recently taken on a new parish in an English village. Their daughter Flora is to follow in her mother’s...

fiction. The other exceptions are Adam and Cassandra Marsh-Gibbon in Civil to Strangers and Rodney and Wilmet Forsyth in A Glass of Blessings. In addition...

anthropologist Emma Howick comes to live in a cottage belonging to her mother in an Oxfordshire village, planning to write up her study of new towns....

next-door to Deirdre and her family. A sub-plot involves the activities of Deirdre's fellow-students Mark and Digby, and their attempts to curry favour...

"The Wayfaring Stranger" (also known as "Poor Wayfaring Stranger", "I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger", or "Wayfaring Pilgrim"), Roud 3339, is a well-known...

thirty-three-year-old wife of a civil servant, Rodney, with a comfortable though routine life. She does not need to work and enjoys a life of leisure...

Sandoval-Strausz, A.K. (Spring 2005). "Travelers, Strangers, and Jim Crow: Law, Public Accommodations, and Civil Rights in America". Law and History Review....

butter and ghee, to soften and polish the skin. They never sell [i.e. enslave] their fellow clansmen, are hospitable and civil to strangers, seldom carry...

show Atlanta and the Civil War drama Mercy Street. In 2017, Ferguson was cast in the Netflix science fiction horror series Stranger Things as Erica Sinclair...

(illustrated in C. P. Snow's Strangers and Brothers series of novels) that technical and scientific expertise was mushrooming, to a point at which the "good...

Rather, they fall along a continuum. Consequential strangers occupy the vast territory between strangers and close (or core) ties. They are just beyond Stanley...

reverse course. Harbour planned to shoot the film concurrently with his scenes as Jim Hopper for the fifth season of Stranger Things (2025), also in Atlanta;...

sisters fret over whether to serve cauliflower cheese to the new vicar. When they serve some to a paid domestic, she is disgusted to find that there is a caterpillar...

John Nettles. In February 2009 it was announced that Nettles had decided to leave Midsomer Murders after the conclusion of series 13 in July 2010. When...

House of Lords still mentions strangers to this present day. Nowadays, visitors can watch debates, and can sit in the Strangers' Gallery. Historically, visitors...

duty (Coming of Age, Episode 21) Sgt Raymond Craddock – Promoted to DS and transfers to Greater Manchester Police's CID (Closing the Book, Episode 12) PC...

Guys. Who wants to co-host / be a guest? — Kevin T. Porter (@KevinTPorter) Porter and Adejuyigbe both grew up in Texas and moved to Los Angeles. Though...

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...

fantasy television series. The series was broadcast on Showtime from 1995 to 2000, and on the Sci Fi Channel in its final year (2001–2002). Showtime's...