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...
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...