Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press.
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Literary responses | Barbara Pym | BP
's father wrote to her on 3 May 1950 commending this novel, which he had not expected to enjoy since he preferred mysteries. Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press. 157n12 |
Literary responses | Barbara Pym | Reviewers, including Elaine Feinstein
and Penelope Fitzgerald
, Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press. 213 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Taylor | Friends said that ET
was very shy, but cared very much for very few people. Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen. 44 |
Friends, Associates | Ivy Compton-Burnett | ICB
met the young novelist Robert Liddell
, who was writing the first extended critical treatment of her. Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton. 152 |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Pym | Authors BP
, Mary Renault
, and Elizabeth Taylor
attended a party in Athens given by Pym's longtime friend the novelist and critic Robert Liddell
. Pym, Barbara. A Very Private Eye. Editors Holt, Hazel and Hilary Pym, Macmillan. 227 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Barbara Pym | Rupert Gleadow
cared about BP
a great deal, but their romance was an experience which she chose to downplay in her memory and writing. Her long, unsuccessful pursuit of Henry Harvey
, who both attracted... |
Dedications | Barbara Pym | She dedicated it to very old friends, Henry Harvey
and Robert Liddell
. Smith, Robert Sidney. “’Always Sincere, Not Always Serious’: Robert Liddell and Barbara Pym”. Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 41 , No. 4. |
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... |
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