The Life and Work of Barbara Pym

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Excellent Woman....Pages 3-3
The Quest for a Career....Pages 4-21
The Novelist in the Field: 1946–74....Pages 22-33
Fellow Writers in a Cotswold Village....Pages 34-39
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
Barbara Pym’s Novelistic Genius....Pages 43-44
The World of Barbara Pym....Pages 45-49
Where, Exactly, is the Pym World?....Pages 50-57
How Pleasant to Know Miss Pym....Pages 58-63
Miss Pym and Miss Austen....Pages 64-71
Love and Marriage in the Novels....Pages 72-87
Barbara Pym and the War of the Sexes....Pages 88-100
The Novelist as Anthropologist....Pages 101-119
Literary Allusions in the Novels....Pages 120-141
The Narrative Sense of Barbara Pym....Pages 142-155
The Pym Papers....Pages 156-167
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
The Rejection of Barbara Pym....Pages 171-175
A Success Story....Pages 176-184
The Importance of Connecting....Pages 185-192
Years of Neglect....Pages 193-193
Back Matter....Pages 194-210