Barbara Pym (1913–1980)
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A propos de l'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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
Œuvres de Barbara Pym
The Barbara Pym Collection Volume One: A Glass of Blessings, Some Tame Gazelle, and Jane and Prudence (2018) 15 exemplaires
The Barbara Pym Collection Volume Two: Less Than Angels and No Fond Return of Love (2018) 5 exemplaires
Barbara Pym 3 Volume Set (Less Than Angels, a Glass of Blessings, a Few Green Leaves) NEW in Plastic (1982) 3 exemplaires
Una visita di Natale (in Addio, capitale balcanica!) 1 exemplaire
Gervase and Flora 1 exemplaire
Aucun titre 1 exemplaire
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Pym, Barbara Mary Crampton
- Date de naissance
- 1913-06-02
- Date de décès
- 1980-01-11
- Lieu de sépulture
- Finstock churchyard, Finstock, Oxfordshire, England
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Oswestry, Shropshire, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Finstock, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Oswestry, Shropshire, England, UK
Finstock, Oxfordshire, England, UK - Études
- Huyton College, Liverpool, UK
Oxford University (St. Hilda's College) - Professions
- novelist
writer
author
editorial secretary (International African Institute, London) - Relations
- Amery, Julian (lover)
Pym, Hilary (sister) - Organisations
- Women's Royal Naval Service (WWII)
- Agent
- Laura Morris (Laura Morris Literary Agency) - estate
- Courte biographie
- 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.
Membres
Discussions
Barbara Pym Centenary - General discussion. à Virago Modern Classics (Décembre 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary: Civil to Strangers à Virago Modern Classics (Décembre 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary - An Academic Question à Virago Modern Classics (Novembre 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary - An Unsuitable Attachment à Virago Modern Classics (Novembre 2013)
Barbara Pym Centenary: Some Tame Gazelle à Virago Modern Classics (Octobre 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary: Crampton Hodnet à Virago Modern Classics (Octobre 2013)
Barbara Pym Centenary: A Few Green Leaves à Virago Modern Classics (Août 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary: The Sweet Dove Died à Virago Modern Classics (Août 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary: No Fond Return of Love and Quartet in Autumn à Virago Modern Classics (Juillet 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary: A Glass of Blessings à Virago Modern Classics (Juillet 2013)
Barbara Pym Centenary: Less than Angels à Virago Modern Classics (Mai 2013)
Barbara Pym centenary: Jane and Prudence à Virago Modern Classics (Mars 2013)
Barbara Pym Centenary: Excellent Women à Virago Modern Classics (Mars 2013)
July: Reading Barbara Pym à Monthly Author Reads (Juillet 2010)
Jane and Prudence (with spoliers) à Barbara Pym (Octobre 2009)
Critiques
Listes
1970s (1)
Unmarried women (1)
Booker Prize (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Backlisted (1)
1950s (2)
Women's Stories (2)
Schwob Nederland (1)
Folio Society (1)
Female Author (1)
Nifty Fifties (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 27
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 13,217
- Popularité
- #1,769
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 549
- ISBN
- 426
- Langues
- 13
- Favoris
- 149