Orphia Jane Allen

Standard Name: Allen, Orphia Jane

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Barbara Pym
BP was brought up in the Church of England , and her family was active in their parish.
Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994.
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Biographer Orphia Jane Allen comments that BP 's treatment of the Church of England in her...
Cultural formation Barbara Pym
As for marriage, BP 's involvements with men as a student must have been to some extent influenced by social pressure to marry. She felt badly let down when Henry Harvey decided to wed another...
Literary responses Barbara Pym
Initial comment included reviews or articles by A. S. Byatt and Marghanita Laski .
Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994.
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Orphia Jane Allen considers this work a thinly developed
Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994.
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but effectively ironic, witty view of academia. Anne Wyatt-Brown
Textual Production Barbara Pym
BP wrote the original version of this text, her North-Oxford novel, in 1939, shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War.
Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994.
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Critic Orphia Jane Allen reasons that because Pym used several of the...

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