Despite her singularly unleisured lifestyle, RP
had a remarkable talent for friendship, which extended to people with whom she might be expected to have little in common. Her friendship with Lord David Cecil
brought her...
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.
