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...

Excellent Women, the second published novel by Barbara Pym, first appeared from Jonathan Cape in 1952. A novel of manners, it is generally acclaimed as...

Anthony Pym, a translation studies scholar Arthur Gordon Pym, protagonist of Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket Barbara Pym, a British...

has also played several real-life characters for television, including Barbara Pym and in a dramatised BBC Omnibus biographical documentary of 1994, Hildegard...

vexillologist William Crampton Library Also: Barbara Mary Crampton Pym, novelist Crampton Hodnet, a novel by Barbara Pym Duncan Stuart Crampton Bell Philip Crampton...

Quartet in Autumn is a novel by British novelist Barbara Pym, first published in 1977. It was highly praised and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the...

No Fond Return of Love is a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1961. The novel concerns the love lives of two academic researchers in London, Viola...

writers of a certain age", such as Anita Brookner, Iris Murdoch, and Barbara Pym. Of Pym and Brookner, she says, "there is a suspicion of the craft that the...

A Glass of Blessings is a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1958. It deals with the growing estrangement of a well-to-do married couple and the...

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...

Barnes. A vestry, in a matching style, was added in 1936. The novelist Barbara Pym lived in Barnes from 1949 to 1961. She worshipped at St Michael's, and...

acquainted with the novelist Barbara Pym, whose biography she later wrote. She also finished one of Pym's novels after Pym died. Holt wrote My Dear Charlotte...

Warwick Square Bill Nighy, actor Laurence Olivier, actor – 22 Lupus Street Barbara Pym, writer – 108 Cambridge Street Sheila Scott, aviator Pamela Colman Smith...

Liddell". The Independent. London. Retrieved 25 July 2010. Pym, Barbara (1984), Holt, Hazel; Pym, Hilary (eds.), A Very Private Eye. An Autobiography in...

Jane and Prudence is the third novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1953. Jane, a vicar's wife, lives a very different life from her younger friend...

An Unsuitable Attachment is a novel by Barbara Pym, written in 1963 and published posthumously in 1982. The plot concerns librarian Ianthe Broome, a well-bred...

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...

born in Toronto and moved to Aix in 1997. She has been influenced by Barbara Pym, and her mysteries are like "intricate puzzles". Longworth also teaches...

While an undergraduate, he had a brief romance with the future novelist Barbara Pym, who was six years his senior. Before the Second World War started, Amery...

Crampton Hodnet is a comic novel by Barbara Pym, published posthumously in 1985, and originally written in 1940. The action takes place over the course...

11 Valentine Blomfield, Major-General in the British Army (b. 1898) Barbara Pym, English novelist (b. 1913) January 13 Eric Aldwinckle, designer, illustrator...

The Sweet Dove Died is a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1978. The title is a quotation from a poem, "I Had a Dove", by John Keats. Leonora Eyre...

A Few Green Leaves is the final novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1980, the year of Pym's death. Although several novels were published posthumously...

English journalist and radio presenter, known for her association with Barbara Pym, Robert Graves, and Laura Riding as well as for her own work. She was...

key role in the career downturn of novelist Barbara Pym. In 1963, after joining Cape, Maschler rejected Pym's seventh novel, An Unsuitable Attachment, on...

Ianthe, character in An Unsuitable Attachment, a posthumous work by Barbara Pym Ianthe, character in Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle, a 1957 book by Georgette...

John Pym (20 May 1584 – 8 December 1643) was a politician and administrator from London, who played a major role in establishing what would become the...

Less Than Angels is a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1955. Catherine Oliphant is a writer of magazine stories and articles who lives with anthropologist...

"Sisters", written in 1969. Anne Tyler once compared Taylor to Jane Austen, Barbara Pym and Elizabeth Bowen – "soul sisters all," in Tyler's words. Taylor was...

friend, the future novelist Barbara Pym, in 1942 which he broke off abruptly and which traumatised Pym. It prompted Pym to join the Wrens and, when Glover...