Barbara Pym (1913–1980)
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Novelist Barbara Pym was born in Shropshire and educated at Oxford University. An editor of Africa, an anthropological review, for many years, she published her first novel, Some Tame Gazelle, in 1950. Since then, a number of popular works have been published. Often compared with the works of Jane mostrar más Austen in both manner and subject, Pym's novels are apparently guileless evocations of the foibles of aging and isolated characters. She has a sure, if understated, sense of her characters' psychology and of their unintentionally comic revelations about themselves and their futile lives. After the publication of No Fond Return of Love (1961), all her books were out of print until she was cited, coincidentally by both David Cecil and Philip Larkin, as among the most underestimated novelists of the 20th century. She subsequently completed two successful novels, The Sweet Dove Died (1978) and Quartet in Autumn (1978), the latter a comic-pathetic study of two men and two women in their sixties who work in the same office but lead separate, lonely lives outside. Many of her earlier books have since been reprinted, including Excellent Women (1952) and A Glass of Blessings (1958), both perceptive psychological studies of aging women taken advantage of by others. A posthumous novel, A Few Green Leaves (1980), is a superb comedy of provincial village life. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de Barbara Pym
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Pym, Barbara Mary Crampton
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1913-06-02
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1980-01-11
- Lugar de sepultura
- Finstock churchyard, Finstock, Oxfordshire, England
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Oswestry, Shropshire, England, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Finstock, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Oswestry, Shropshire, England, UK
Finstock, Oxfordshire, England, UK - Educación
- Huyton College, Liverpool, UK
Oxford University (St. Hilda's College) - Ocupaciones
- novelist
writer
author
editorial secretary (International African Institute, London) - Relaciones
- Amery, Julian (lover)
Pym, Hilary (sister) - Organizaciones
- Women's Royal Naval Service (WWII)
- Agente
- Laura Morris (Laura Morris Literary Agency) - estate
- Biografía breve
- Barbara Mary Crampton Pym was born to Frederic and Irena Pym on June 2, 1913, in the town of Oswestry, Shropshire. S In 1931, Barbara entered St. Hilda's College at Oxford. In 1940, Barbara joined the Wrens (Women's Royal Naval Service), and in 1944, she was posted to Naples until the end of the war. After the war, Barbara took a job at the International African Institute in London, and soon became the assistant editor for the journal Africa. In 1971 she was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a mastectomy; in 1974 she suffered a minor stroke. She then retired from the Institute and went to live with her sister Hilary. She died at the Michael Sobell House, a hospice in Oxford, on January 11, 1980. She is buried in the churchyard at Finstock.
Miembros
Debates
British Author Challenge April 2024: Barbara Pym & Anthony Trollope en 75 Books Challenge for 2024 (lunes 3:37pm)
Barbara Pym Centenary - General discussion. en Virago Modern Classics (diciembre 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary: Civil to Strangers en Virago Modern Classics (diciembre 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary - An Academic Question en Virago Modern Classics (noviembre 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary - An Unsuitable Attachment en Virago Modern Classics (noviembre 2013)
Barbara Pym Centenary: Some Tame Gazelle en Virago Modern Classics (octubre 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary: Crampton Hodnet en Virago Modern Classics (octubre 2013)
Barbara Pym Centenary: A Few Green Leaves en Virago Modern Classics (agosto 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary: The Sweet Dove Died en Virago Modern Classics (agosto 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary: No Fond Return of Love and Quartet in Autumn en Virago Modern Classics (julio 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary: A Glass of Blessings en Virago Modern Classics (julio 2013)
Barbara Pym Centenary: Less than Angels en Virago Modern Classics (mayo 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary: Jane and Prudence en Virago Modern Classics (marzo 2013)
Barbara Pym Centenary: Excellent Women en Virago Modern Classics (marzo 2013)
July: Reading Barbara Pym en Monthly Author Reads (julio 2010)
Jane and Prudence (with spoliers) en Barbara Pym (octubre 2009)
Reseñas
Listas
Booker Prize (1)
Unmarried women (1)
1970s (1)
Backlisted (1)
1950s (2)
Women's Stories (2)
Folio Society (1)
Female Author (1)
Schwob Nederland (1)
Nifty Fifties (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
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- ISBNs
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