Barbara Pym (1913–1980)
Forfatter af Excellent Women
Om forfatteren
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 vis mere 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) vis mindre
Værker af Barbara Pym
The Barbara Pym Collection Volume One: A Glass of Blessings, Some Tame Gazelle, and Jane and Prudence (2018) 14 eksemplarer
The Barbara Pym Collection Volume Two: Less Than Angels and No Fond Return of Love (2018) 5 eksemplarer
Barbara Pym 3 Volume Set (Less Than Angels, a Glass of Blessings, a Few Green Leaves) NEW in Plastic (1982) 3 eksemplarer
Some Tame Gazelle (VMC) by Barbara Pym (2009-08-06) 3 eksemplarer
Gervase and Flora 1 eksemplar
Ingen titel 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 544 eksemplarer
Satte nøgleord på
Almen Viden
- Juridisk navn
- Pym, Barbara Mary Crampton
- Fødselsdato
- 1913-06-02
- Dødsdag
- 1980-01-11
- Begravelsessted
- Finstock churchyard, Finstock, Oxfordshire, England
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Fødested
- Oswestry, Shropshire, England, UK
- Dødssted
- Finstock, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Bopæl
- Oswestry, Shropshire, England, UK
Finstock, Oxfordshire, England, UK - Uddannelse
- Huyton College, Liverpool, UK
Oxford University (St. Hilda's College) - Erhverv
- novelist
writer
author
editorial secretary (International African Institute, London) - Relationer
- Amery, Julian (lover)
Pym, Hilary (sister) - Organisationer
- Women's Royal Naval Service (WWII)
- Agent
- Laura Morris (Laura Morris Literary Agency) - estate
- Kort biografi
- 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.
Medlemmer
Discussions
Barbara Pym Centenary - General discussion. i Virago Modern Classics (december 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary: Civil to Strangers i Virago Modern Classics (december 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary - An Academic Question i Virago Modern Classics (november 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary - An Unsuitable Attachment i Virago Modern Classics (november 2013)
Barbara Pym Centenary: Some Tame Gazelle i Virago Modern Classics (oktober 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary: Crampton Hodnet i Virago Modern Classics (oktober 2013)
Barbara Pym Centenary: A Few Green Leaves i Virago Modern Classics (august 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary: The Sweet Dove Died i Virago Modern Classics (august 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary: No Fond Return of Love and Quartet in Autumn i Virago Modern Classics (juli 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary: A Glass of Blessings i Virago Modern Classics (juli 2013)
Barbara Pym Centenary: Less than Angels i Virago Modern Classics (maj 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary: Jane and Prudence i Virago Modern Classics (marts 2013)
Barbara Pym Centenary: Excellent Women i Virago Modern Classics (marts 2013)
July: Reading Barbara Pym i Monthly Author Reads (juli 2010)
Jane and Prudence (with spoliers) i Barbara Pym (oktober 2009)
Anmeldelser
Lister
Schwob Nederland (1)
Booker Prize (1)
Unmarried women (1)
1970s (1)
Backlisted (1)
1950s (2)
Women's Stories (2)
A Novel Cure (1)
Folio Society (1)
Female Author (1)
Nifty Fifties (1)
Hæderspriser
Måske også interessante?
Associated Authors
Statistikker
- Værker
- 30
- Also by
- 3
- Medlemmer
- 13,076
- Popularitet
- #1,782
- Vurdering
- 3.9
- Anmeldelser
- 541
- ISBN
- 422
- Sprog
- 12
- Udvalgt
- 148
- Om
- 2
- Trædesten
- 1,355