THE ADVENTURES OF MISS BARBARA PYM. By Paula Byrne. William Collins. 704 pages. $34.99. Even the most passionate of Barbara Pym fans may be hard-pressed to explain why they find her writing so ...
If you are familiar with the quiet little gems that are the novels of Barbara Pym, you may be surprised by the number and intensity of the writer’s love affairs—all doomed. Paula Byrne brings these ...
One reaches page 388 of Paula Byrne’s new biography, “The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym” (HarperCollins), before the subject’s career as a published novelist begins. It appears to end on page 482, ...
There's a passage in Barbara Pym's "Jane and Prudence" that always makes me smile. After Jane Cleveland's husband is installed as vicar in a village church, Jane is introduced to a Miss Doggett, a ...
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All hail the Pymnaissance... has Barbara Pym’s time finally come?
All hail the Pymnaissance... a Booker winner is putting Barbara Pym’s tales of mid-life drudgery centre stage - BOOKS: In the 1960s, Barbara Pym’s manuscripts were languishing in her linen cupboard ...
In this profound work, poet Webster (Wail Song) traces his genealogy like a thread through a labyrinthine racial history of America. Webster positions himself as “the grandchild Continue reading » ...
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