1. Barbara Pym - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Barbara Pym died of breast cancer, aged 66. Following her death, her sister Hilary continued to champion her work, and the Barbara Pym Society was set up in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Pym

Barbara Pym From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Barbara Mary Crampton Pym June 2 January 11 ) was an English novelist Contents Biography Works and themes Novels References ... edit Biography Pym was born in Oswestry Shropshire . After studying English at St Hilda's College, Oxford , she served in the Women's Royal Naval Service during World War II . Her literary career is noteworthy because of the long hiatus between and , when, despite early success and continuing popularity, she was unable to find a publisher for her richly comic novels. The turning point for Pym came with a famous article in the Times Literary Supplement in which two prominent names, Lord David Cecil and Philip Larkin , nominated her as the most underrated writer of the century. Pym and Larkin had kept up a private correspondence over a period of many years. Her comeback novel, Quartet in Autumn , was nominated for the Booker Prize . Another novel, The Sweet Dove Died , previously rejected by many publishers, was subsequently published to critical acclaim, and several of her previously unpublished novels were published after her death. Pym worked at the African Institute in London for some years, and played a large part in the editing of its scholarly journal

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3. Barbara Pym On LibraryThing | Catalog Your Books Online Also known as pym barbara. 647 LibraryThing users have 2033 books by Barbara Pym There are 212 conversations about Barbara Pym s books. http://www.librarything.com/author/pymbarbara

Language: English [ others Albanian Basque Bulgarian ... Welsh Over twenty-two million books on members' bookshelves. Home Book Suggestions Zeitgeist Groups ... add a picture Author: Barbara Pym Also known as: Pym Barbara Members Reviews Rating Favorited Conversations Books by Barbara Pym combine/separate works Excellent women 343 copies, 10 reviews Quartet in autumn 199 copies, 6 reviews Jane and Prudence 184 copies, 4 reviews Some tame gazelle 165 copies, 3 reviews Crampton Hodnet 150 copies, 4 reviews No fond return of love 147 copies, 4 reviews A glass of blessings 143 copies, 2 reviews The sweet dove died 140 copies, 2 reviews A few green leaves 135 copies, 3 reviews An unsuitable attachment 123 copies, review Less than angels 119 copies, 1 review 91 copies, 2 reviews An academic question 74 copies, 3 reviews Civil to strangers and other writings 57 copies, review 21 copies, review see all 20 books Member ratings Average: 0.5 stars 1 stars 1.5 stars 2 stars 2.5 stars 3 stars 3.5 stars 4 stars 4.5 stars 5 stars Common Knowledge Share what you know. view history You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.

4. Barbara Pym Barbara Pym AKA Barbara Mary Crampton Pym. Born 2Jun-1913 Father Frederic Crampton Pym (solicitor) Mother Irena Spenser Thomas http://www.nndb.com/people/237/000113895/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Barbara Pym AKA Barbara Mary Crampton Pym Born: 2-Jun Birthplace: Oswestry, Shropshire, England Died: 11-Jan Location of death: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England Cause of death: Cancer - Breast Remains: Buried, Finstock Churchyard Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Novelist Nationality: England Executive summary: Some Tame Gazelle Military service: Censorship Office (WWII); Women's Royal Naval Service (WWII) Worked for the International African Institute, London (1946-74). Father: Frederic Crampton Pym (solicitor) Mother: Irena Spenser Thomas Sister: Hilary Pym (b. 1916, d. 2005) Boyfriend: Henry Harvey Boyfriend: Julian Amery, Baron Amery of Lustleigh (politician, b. 1919, d. 1996) High School: Huyton College, Liverpool University: BA, St. Hilda's College, Oxford University Mastectomy Stroke 1974 (minor) Risk Factors: Breast Cancer Author of books: Some Tame Gazelle , novel) Excellent Women , novel) Jane and Prudence , novel) Less than Angels , novel) A Glass of Blessings , novel) No Fond Return Of Love , novel) Quartet in Autumn , novel) The Sweet Dove Died , novel) A Few Green Leaves , novel) An Unsuitable Attachment , novel) A Very Private Eye , journal, letters) Crampton Hodnet , novel) Do you know something we don't?

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Home Books Read Index Long Term Reading Projects Celebrating the pleasures of a 21st century bookworm Feed on Posts Comments Quartet in Autumn - Barbara Pym Posted in pym barbara Four colleagues, who have worked together for a number of years are approaching retirement.  We are unsure of the exact nature of their jobs, suffice to say, it is not mission-critical.  Despite the time they have worked together, the relationship between them has not progressed beyond acquaintanceship.  For they have lives beyond the office. Right? Recent Posts Book to Movie: The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Book Group: The Power and The Glory - Graham Greene A-Z Shorter Fiction: G is for Gaskell Recent Comments lizzysiddal on Book to Movie: The Kite Runner... John Self on Book to Movie: The Kite Runner... lizzysiddal on Book to Movie: The Kite Runner... John Self on Book to Movie: The Kite Runner... Sandra M on Email lizzysiddal at yahoo dot com Currently Reading (Mostly) Canadiana Down the Pub Objective 1: 8 published 2008 A Vengeful Longing Objective 2: 7 published 2007 The Bower Bird Challenge 2008 Part 1 Objective: 6 Booker nominees Jan - Dec 2008 Lies of Silence 2) The Colour of Blood 3) The Doctor's Wife 4) Fasting, Feasting

7. Penguin Reading Guides | Excellent Women | Barbara Pym Barbara Pym’s Excellent Women is a novel about a woman named Mildred Lathbury who is living in London in the 1950s. A selfproclaimed spinster, http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/excellent_women.html

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10. Barbara Pym - Wikipédia Translate this page Barbara Pym travailla à l African Institute de Londres pendant quelques années, et joua un grand rôle dans la publication de son journal Africa, http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Pym

Barbara Pym Un article de Wikip©dia, l'encyclop©die libre. Aller   : Navigation Rechercher Barbara Mary Crampton Pym (2 Juin – 11 Janvier ) ©tait une nouvelliste anglaise. Elle est n©e   Oswestry , dans le Shropshire . Apr¨s des ©tudes d'anglais au St Hilda's College d' Oxford , elle s'est engag©e dans le Women's Royal Naval Service lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale . Sa carri¨re litt©raire est remarquable   cause d'une longue ©clipse entre and , p©riode pendant laquelle, en d©pit de son succ¨s pass© et de sa popularit© persistante, elle ne parvint pas   trouver un ©diteur pour ses nouvelles hautement comiques. Un article fameux du Times Literary Supplement causa sa "r©apparition". Deux noms ©minents, Lord David Cecil et Philip Larkin la d©sign¨rent comme l'©crivain le plus sous-estim© du si¨cle. Sa nouvelle Quartet d'automne ) lui valut le Booker Prize Barbara Pym travailla   l'African Institute de Londres pendant quelques ann©es, et joua un grand r´le dans la publication de son journal Africa , ce qui explique les nombreuses apparitions d' anthropologues dans ses nouvelles. Elle ne s'est jamais mari©e, malgr© des relations intimes avec plusieurs hommes, dont Henry Harvey, un de ses condisciples d'Oxford, et le futur politicien Julian Amery. Apr¨s sa retraite, elle partagea un

11. The Barbara Pym Society Provides information on the British novelist. Lists activities of the North American branch of her literary society including conference dates. http://www.barbara-pym.org/

The Barbara Pym Society This is the official web site of the Barbara Pym Society. About Us Barbara Pym Biography Books by Barbara Pym Pym Society in the U.K. New Membership Form Membership Renewal Form Pym Society in North America New Membership Form Membership Renewal Form Past Conferences Moyer Bell Publishers ... Pym Links Pym Archives and Books NEWS Books about Barbara Social Dimensions in the Novels of Barbara Pym,1949-1963: The Writer as Hidden Observer by Orna Raz "All This Reading": The Literary World of Barbara Pym Edited by Frauke Elisabeth Lenckos and Ellen J. Miller No Soft Incense: Barbara Pym and the Church Edited by Hazel K. Bell 2008 Conference of the Barbara Pym Society in North America. New dates, new venue : 12-13 April 2008 at the Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. A Message from Ellen Registration Accommodations Program 27 April 2008, Barbara Pym Society meeting in London. 9-10 August 2008, Barbara Pym Society annual meeting at St. Hilda's College, Oxford. For more information, contact: Ellen Miller Site last updated: 24 January 2008 Judy Horn

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Barbara Pym HomePage The index of Barbara Pym writings is online, thanks to Hazel Bell Archives of the old Fans Meeting Point Barbara Mary Crampton Pym was born in Oswestry, Shropshire, the 2nd of June 1913, from Frederic Crampton Pym, solicitor, and Irena Spenser Thomas. She studied at the Huyton College, in Liverpool, and readed English at the St. Hilda's College in Oxford (B.A. "with honors"). During II World War she worked for Censorship (as Mildred does in Excellent Women ) then served in the Women's Royal Naval Service, in Britain and in Naples. From 1946 to 1974 she worked at the International African Institute where she was assistant editor of the anthropological journal Africa Her first novel, Some Tame Gazelle , was published in 1950, followed by five more books. In 1963 the new chief editor of her publisher rejected An Unsuitable Attachment , because, as he wrote, "in present conditions we could not sell a sufficient number of copies to cover costs". In 1969 she sent The Sweet Dove Died , written in 1968, to many publishers, with no success. Discouraged, she stopped writing.

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BodyLoad('s'); Results for Barbara Pym On this page: Select Article Columbia Ency. Wikipedia Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping Columbia Encyclopedia Pym, Barbara (Barbara Mary Crampton Pym), 1913–80, English writer. Her books are quiet comedies, often dealing with older, usually frustrated, and isolated characters. After success with such novels as Excellent Women (1952) and A Glass of Blessings (1958), her works went out of print. In 1977, after publishing A Quartet in Autumn, she was praised by several British critics, and her novels subsequently became widely available again. ADVERTISEMENT Home Business Entertainment Food ... More... InitForm('lookup1','autodiv1','down'); Library Arts Business Entertainment Food ... Wikipedia Barbara Pym Barbara Mary Crampton Pym June 2 January 11 ) was an English novelist Biography Pym was born in Oswestry Shropshire . After studying English at St Hilda's College, Oxford , she served in the Women's Royal Naval Service during World War II . Her literary career is noteworthy because of the long hiatus between and , when, despite early success and continuing popularity, she was unable to find a publisher for her richly comic novels.

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[Content] www.literaryheritage.org.uk Home People Places Themes ... Site map Barbara Pym Profile Novelist; born at 72 Willow Street, Oswestry the daughter of a solicitor and educated at Liverpool College, Huyton and St. Hilda's College, Oxford where she read English. She spent most of her childhood at Morda Lodge, a large Edwardian house on the outskirts of Oswestry, which was to remain the Pym family home for many years. Barbara was brought up in a family where the Church played a major part; her mother was assistant organist at the parish church of St. Oswald, her father sang in the choir and there was a longstanding family tradition of having curates home for supper on a Sunday. Both parents were keen members of Oswestry Operatic Society in the 1920's. Barbara's first real creative work (she had been encouraged to write by her mother) was an operetta called The magic diamond performed by family and friends at Morda Lodge in April 1922. She was writing throughout the 1930's and, indeed, was working on her first novel Some tame gazelle from 1935 onwards although it was not published until 1950. During the war she joined the W.R.N.S. and after worked for the International African Institute, living with her sister in London. In more recent years and up to the time of her death she was living in a country cottage in Oxfordshire.

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20. A Regiment Of Women, Some Excellent, Some Annoying - The Boston Globe But closest at hand, only a week from today, is the 30th anniversary of the resurrection of barbara pym s literary career, and in my book that s big. http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2007/01/14/a_regiment_of_women_some_exce

Movies Restaurants Food Calendar ... Books A READING LIFE A regiment of women, some excellent, some annoying January 14, 2007 This is the new year's first column, and though I don't like to think of what 2007 holds in store for us, I do like to think of what it marks. It is, for instance, the tercentenary of Henry Fielding's birth and bicentenary of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's . What is more, both Daphne du Maurier and W. H. Auden would be 100 this year had they stuck around. But closest at hand, only a week from today, is the 30th anniversary of the resurrection of Barbara Pym's literary career, and in my book that's big. In the Times Literary Supplement of Jan. 21, 1977, both Philip Larkin and Lord David Cecil named Pym "the most underrated novelist of the century," and suddenly her published novels were back in print, and those that had been rejected by countless publishers were accepted and greeted with praise. My own library of these novels is in dreadful repair acid-burned, crumbling, and pilfered so I was happy to see that "Excellent Women" (first published 55 years ago, speaking of anniversaries) has just reappeared in a Penguin Classics edition, with an introduction by A. N. Wilson (paperback, $14). Set in dismal, straitened, postwar London, it is narrated by Mildred Lathbury, the daughter of a clergyman and his wife, both deceased. She is in her early 30s and works part time for "an organisation which helped impoverished gentlewomen, a cause very near to my own heart, as I felt that I was just the kind of person who might one day become one." She is a helping presence in the nearby church and lives in a flat with a bathroom shared by downstairs tenants .

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