BP
began working with Hazel Holt
at the International African Institute
in London. Their close friendship led to Holt' becoming Pym's literary executor, editor, and biographer.
Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994.
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Literary responses
Barbara Pym
According to her literary executor, Hazel Holt
, the sudden demand for Pym's books was due in part to publicity, but also to a slow change in the literary climate and to a loyal contingent...
names
Barbara Pym
BirthName: Barbara Mary Crampton Pym
Self-constructed: Sandra
To reflect the more dashing aspects of her character,
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BP
used the name Sandra at Oxford
. Her friend and biographer Hazel Holt
suggests that she may...
Occupation
Barbara Pym
This work had an impact on her own writing, which continued to be her primary focus. Hazel Holt
observes that she was a capable and conscientious editor but had no real interest in Africa as...
Textual Production
Barbara Pym
An Unsuitable Attachment, BP
's seventh novel, was edited by Hazel Holt
and published two years after Pym's death.
Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994.
47, 231, 232
Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press, 1992.
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Textual Production
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BP
's early novel Crampton Hodnet, edited by Hazel Holt
, was published posthumously.
Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994.
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Textual Production
Barbara Pym
Hazel Holt
edited An Academic Question, another of BP
's novels to be published posthumously.
Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994.
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Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press, 1992.
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Textual Production
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BP
's A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters, was published posthumously. The text was edited by Hazel Holt
and the author's sister, Hilary Pym Walton
.
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Textual Production
Barbara Pym
A collection of BP
's shorter fiction, Civil to Strangers and Other Writings, appeared posthumously, prepared for publication by Pym's literary executor Hazel Holt
.
Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994.
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Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press, 1992.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production
Barbara Pym
This novel's initial rejection by Jonathan Cape
in 1963 had marked the beginning of fourteen years in which BP
could not find a publisher for her work.
Pym, Barbara. A Very Private Eye. Editors Holt, Hazel and Hilary Pym, Macmillan, 1984.
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In the form in which it eventually...
Timeline
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Texts
Pym, Barbara. A Very Private Eye. Editors Holt, Hazel and Hilary Pym, Macmillan, 1984.
Pym, Barbara. “Editorial Materials”. A Very Private Eye, edited by Hazel Holt and Hilary Pym, Macmillan, 1984, p. various pages.