Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Residence | Barbara Pym | |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Pym | BP
encountered Lord David Cecil
(Oxford
don, longtime admirer, and one of the two recent rediscoverers of her work) at a media event filmed by the BBC
and aired as Tea With Miss Pym. Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press. 44 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Pym | While at boarding school and Oxford
, BP
was heavily influenced by the novels of Aldous Huxley
, whose books inspired her to become a writer. In this she resembles an otherwise entirely different writer,... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Barbara Pym | In many ways this novel reflects BP
's undergraduate years at Oxford
, featuring characters and episodes based partly on herself, her sister, and her friends or acquaintances. Among these, Henry Harvey
and the future... |
Characters | Barbara Pym | The central characters here are Jane Cleveland, a kindly and somewhat fey Oxford
don, and Prudence Bates, Jane's former student and surrogate daughter. Jane's main preoccupation is matchmaking for Prudence: she likens herself not only... |
Textual Production | Barbara Pym | BP
began keeping a diary in 1931. Her papers are archived at the Bodleian Library
, Oxford University
. (BP
took her degree at St Hilda's College
.) This material includes unpublished poems, short... |
Reception | Kathleen Raine | She stood as a candidate for election as Professor of Poetry at Oxford
in 1968, but was unsuccessful. (Four years later John Betjeman
told her that she would have been a better choice for Poet... |
Occupation | Eleanor Rathbone | Soon after leaving OxfordER
became a Visitor for the Liverpool Central Relief Society
, which was linked to the Charity Organization Society
(COS): her first formal experience, it seems, in social work. Pedersen, Susan. Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience. Yale University Press. 59 Stobaugh, Beverly. Women and Parliament, 1918-1970. Exposition Press. 35 |
Anthologization | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
contributed an essay to the Economic Journal which was reprinted in September as The Remuneration of Women's Services in The Making of Women: Oxford
Essays in Feminism. Pedersen, Susan. Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and France, 1914-1945. Cambridge University Press. 144 Pedersen, Susan. Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience. Yale University Press. 379 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Eleanor Rathbone | This text grew out of the socio-economic research which she had begun in 1896, following her return to Liverpool from Oxford
. |
Publishing | Mary Renault | |
Wealth and Poverty | Frances Reynolds | |
Education | Adrienne Rich | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Rigby | In June the previous year he had received an honorary degree from Oxford University
. Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray. 100-1 |
Textual Production | Michèle Roberts | She belonged to the Poetry Society at Oxford
, contributed to the student magazine Isis, won a poetry prize from the teenage magazine Honey (for a female-student-voice answer to Christopher Marlowe
's The Passionate... |
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