Crampton Hodnet

Crampton Hodnet
Author: Barbara Pym
Publisher: Epicenter Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 160381177X
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Miss Morrow is content in her position as spinster companion to Miss Doggett, even if her employer and the woman s social circle regard her as a piece of furniture. Stephen Latimer, the new cleric and Miss Doggett s dashing new tenant, upsets the balance for Miss Morrow by proposing the long discounted possibility of marriage.

Excellent Women

Excellent Women
Author: Barbara Pym
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2006-12-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101666250
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Excellent Women is probably the most famous of Barbara Pym's novels. The acclaim a few years ago for this early comic novel, which was hailed by Lord David Cecil as one of 'the finest examples of high comedy to have appeared in England during the past seventy-five years,' helped launch the rediscovery of the author's entire work. Mildred Lathbury is a clergyman's daughter and a spinster in the England of the 1950s, one of those 'excellent women' who tend to get involved in other people's lives - such as those of her new neighbor, Rockingham, and the vicar next door. This is Barbara Pym's world at its funniest.

Barbara Pym

Barbara Pym
Author: Orphia Jane Allen
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1994
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780810828759
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Encourages the teaching of Pym's novels and assists scholars in the critical study of Pym's contribution to English literature.

The Making of Barbara Pym

The Making of Barbara Pym
Author: Emily Stockard
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2021-11-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3030838684
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The Making of Barbara Pym offers new insights into Pym’s formative years as a writer, during which she honed a complex view of the necessity of change on individual and cultural levels. Supported by newly published archival material, this comprehensive study of Pym’s early work explores her personal and fictional pre-war and wartime writing, including unpublished and posthumously published works, before looking closely at Some Tame Gazelle and Excellent Women, published during Britain’s post-war austerity period. Of central importance is a new recognition of Pym’s use of social roles, particularly those of women, as proper avenues for change. The book traces how Pym came to devise characters whose individual development can be seen as analogous to or representative of larger cultural movements. Pym uses the spinster figure to embody the forward-looking cultural perspectives that she endorsed and then, finally, in Jane and Prudence, to figure the end of Britain’s austerity period.

No Fond Return of Love

No Fond Return of Love
Author: Barbara Pym
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2013-01-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1453279628
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Three lonely people come together in this poignant, witty novel of star-crossed romance from the New York Times–bestselling author of Jane and Prudence. After being jilted by her fiancé, Dulcie Mainwaring despairs of ever finding true love. For a distraction, she goes to a publishing conference, where she meets Viola Dace, a dramatic woman who refuses to live without romance, as well as Aylwin Forbes, an editor whom Viola adores. The fact that Aylwin is married doesn’t stop Viola. When her amorous pursuit prompts Aylwin’s wife to leave him, the academic heartthrob is wide open to Viola’s romantic attentions. That is, until Dulcie’s eighteen-year-old niece moves in with Viola, and the young girl soon catches Aylwin’s roving eye. Set in London in the early 1960s, No Fond Return of Love is a delightful comedy of manners that comes full circle as Dulcie discovers a love as unexpected as it is liberating.

Some Tame Gazelle

Some Tame Gazelle
Author: Barbara Pym
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2011-05-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0748131523
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INTRODUCED BY MAVIS CHEEK 'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' Richard Osman 'She is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life' Anne Tyler Together yet alone, the Misses Bede occupy the central crossroads of parish life. Harriet, plump, elegant and jolly, likes nothing better than to make a fuss of new curates, secure in the knowledge that Count Ricardo Bianco will propose to her yet again this year. Belinda, meanwhile, has harboured sober feelings of devotion towards Archdeacon Hoccleve for thirty years. Then into their quiet, comfortable lives comes a famous librarian, Nathaniel Mold, and a bishop from Africa, Theodore Grote - who each takes to calling on the sisters for rather more unsettling reasons. 'Some Tame Gazelle is my personal favourite for its sparkling high comedy and its treasury of characters . . . [Pym] makes me smile, laugh out loud, consider my own foibles and fantasies, and, above all, suffer real regret when I reach the final page. Of how many authors can you honestly say that?' MAVIS CHEEK

Crampton Hodnet

Crampton Hodnet
Author: Barbara Pym
Publisher:
Total Pages: 281
Release: 1986
Genre:
ISBN: 9782213017693
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Joinings and Disjoinings

Joinings and Disjoinings
Author: JoAnna Stephens Mink
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 186
Release: 1991
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780879725242
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Joinings and Disjoinings illustrates the importance of marriage or singleness in short stories and novels and suggests the diverse perspectives the topic can provide on specific works and on analysis of the cultural importance of marriage and marital status. Essays discuss canonical and lesser-known works, providing social, historical, and literary context.

The Reality behind Barbara Pym's Excellent Women

The Reality behind Barbara Pym's Excellent Women
Author: Robin R. Joyce
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2023-02-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1527589293
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This book analyses Barbara Pym’s published and unpublished work through a new image, that of the troublesome woman. It details the political nature of her work, highlighting her feminist ideas which are hidden in village-like settings and revealed by troublesome women. By exploring Pym’s written work, published, and unpublished, diaries and notebooks, the book shows that this material gives credence to Hilary Pym’s interpretation of her sister as a complex person.