Orphia Jane Allen

Standard Name: Allen, Orphia Jane

Connections

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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.
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Critic Orphia Jane Allen reasons that because Pym used several of the...
Literary responses Barbara Pym
Initial comment included reviews or articles by A. S. Byatt and Marghanita Laski .
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Orphia Jane Allen considers this work a thinly developed
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but effectively ironic, witty view of academia. Anne Wyatt-Brown
Cultural formation Barbara Pym
BP was brought up in the Church of England , and her family was active in their parish.
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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...

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Texts

Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994.