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 The phrase first appears in Pym's early unpublished novel Civil to Strangers and is taken from Jane Austen's novel Sanditon.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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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....

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...

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

including Vadodara, Gandhinagar, ONGC, GIFT City, and Civil Defence were also sent to the scene to render aid. The Central Industrial Security Force, responsible...

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

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;...

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...

monarchs), known as "Royal" and "Stranger" Knights and Ladies (Companion), respectively. The Sovereign alone grants membership to the Order, meaning that ministerial...

among strangers, a stranger among his own or A friend among foes, a foe among friends to At home among the Strangers. The setting is post-Russian Civil War...

Institute in London and thus had less time to devote to keeping her notebooks. In 1990, Hazel Holt published A Lot To Ask: A Life of Barbara Pym, her biography...

(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...

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...

and then a week later, told Snapchat that actually it's fine to have sex with strangers you meet on Tinder. Walker, James (April 24, 2020). "Fox News...

Lang, Brent (October 24, 2023). "Gotham Awards Nominations: 'All of Us Strangers' Leads With Four Nominations". Variety. Archived from the original on...

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...