Barbara Pym (1913–1980)
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Over de Auteur
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 toon meer 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) toon minder
Werken van Barbara Pym
The Barbara Pym Collection Volume Two: Less Than Angels and No Fond Return of Love (2018) 5 exemplaren
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Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Pym, Barbara Mary Crampton
- Geboortedatum
- 1913-06-02
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1980-01-11
- Graflocatie
- Finstock churchyard, Finstock, Oxfordshire, England
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Oswestry, Shropshire, England, UK
- Plaats van overlijden
- Finstock, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Woonplaatsen
- Oswestry, Shropshire, England, UK
Finstock, Oxfordshire, England, UK - Opleiding
- Huyton College, Liverpool, UK
Oxford University (St. Hilda's College) - Beroepen
- novelist
writer
author
editorial secretary (International African Institute, London) - Relaties
- Amery, Julian (lover)
Pym, Hilary (sister) - Organisaties
- Women's Royal Naval Service (WWII)
- Agent
- Laura Morris (Laura Morris Literary Agency) - estate
- Korte biografie
- 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.
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Discussies
British Author Challenge April 2024: Barbara Pym & Anthony Trollope in 75 Books Challenge for 2024 (Gisteren 6:55pm)
Barbara Pym Centenary - General discussion. in Virago Modern Classics (december 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary: Civil to Strangers in Virago Modern Classics (december 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary - An Academic Question in Virago Modern Classics (november 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary - An Unsuitable Attachment in Virago Modern Classics (november 2013)
Barbara Pym Centenary: Some Tame Gazelle in Virago Modern Classics (oktober 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary: Crampton Hodnet in Virago Modern Classics (oktober 2013)
Barbara Pym Centenary: A Few Green Leaves in Virago Modern Classics (augustus 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary: The Sweet Dove Died in Virago Modern Classics (augustus 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary: No Fond Return of Love and Quartet in Autumn in Virago Modern Classics (juli 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary: A Glass of Blessings in Virago Modern Classics (juli 2013)
Barbara Pym Centenary: Less than Angels in Virago Modern Classics (mei 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary: Jane and Prudence in Virago Modern Classics (maart 2013)
Barbara Pym Centenary: Excellent Women in Virago Modern Classics (maart 2013)
July: Reading Barbara Pym in Monthly Author Reads (juli 2010)
Jane and Prudence (with spoliers) in Barbara Pym (oktober 2009)
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Lijsten
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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- Werken
- 27
- Ook door
- 3
- Leden
- 13,312
- Populariteit
- #1,753
- Waardering
- 3.9
- Besprekingen
- 568
- ISBNs
- 426
- Talen
- 13
- Favoriet
- 148